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French say 'non' to official status for regional tongues

Academy blocks bid to enshrine Breton and others in constitution From Hugh Schofield in Paris

A bid to inscribe Breton and other regional languages in the French constitution has been thwarted after the Académie française - the elite body that guards over French culture - ruled that it was a threat to national unity.