Wmffre (1998:25)

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Wmffre (1998:25): [texte original]

 'The 2SG is used informally with friends: men - including husbands -
 generally do not adress women with this form. 
 In addition to its plural meaning, the 2PL has also become the formal 
 or polite form of the 2SG. 
 
 In the parishes immediately to the south of Plounévézel the 2SG has 
 disappeared from the spoken language (similar to the disappearance of 
 thou from standard English), conversely some 10km to the north-west 
 in the adjacent parish of Poullaouen the use of the 2SG is so much more 
 freely used than in Plounévézel that the inhabitants of Plounévézel think
 of the people of Poullaouen as ifχõntət 'cheeky, forward'.
 

référence

  • Wmffre, I. 1998. Central Breton. [= Languages of the World Materials 152] Unterschleißheim: Lincom Europa.