Dom Louis Le Pelletier (1663,

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– 1733,

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) was a Franco-Breton

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

. He became a religious in

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and followed the rule of

Benedict of Nursia Benedict of Nursia ( la, Benedictus Nursiae; it, Benedetto da Norcia; 2 March AD 480 – 21 March AD 548) was an Italian Christian monk, writer, and theologian who is venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Orient ...

. Noted for his ability to study languages, he took advantage of his stay in the

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to familiarize himself with the

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Publications

''Dictionnaire de la Langue Bretonne, où l’on voit son Antiquité, son Affinité avec les anciennes langues, l’Explication de plusieurs passages de l’Ecriture Sainte, et des Auteurs profanes, avec l’Etymologie de plusieurs mots des autres langues''
François Delaguette editor, Paris, written in 1716, published in 1752. This dictionary was published under the auspices and at the cost of the

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. He devoted 25 years to the composition of his dictionary, the result of an immense research to which Leon Roussel, whom he called his ''oracle'', collaborated. He compares armoricains words to those in Wales using the Davies dictionary. For the etymology, he cites

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and

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