Jules Marcel Gros (2 February 1890 – 25 December 1992) was a Breton linguist specializing in the

Breton language Breton (, ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albeit as a member of t ...

. He was born in

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. Gros' studies began very early in the twentieth century, from his grandmother and other people in his village who were still

unilingual Monoglottism (Greek μόνος ''monos'', "alone, solitary", + γλῶττα , "tongue, language") or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language, as opposed to multilingualism. ...

Breton speakers. Gros authored ''Stylistique Trégorroise'' and various dictionaries of Breton. His books were used by a generation of students, and continue to be important as reference works cataloguing the speech patterns of the Breton language. Gros died on 25 December 1992 in

Trédrez-Locquémeau Trédrez-Locquémeau (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Côtes-d'Armor Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in northwestern France. Population Inhabitants of Trédrez-Locquémeau are called ' ...

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* Linguists from France 1890 births 1992 deaths Linguists of Breton French centenarians Writers from Brittany University of Rennes alumni French male writers Breton-language writers 20th-century linguists 20th-century French male writers Men centenarians {{France-linguist-stub

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