Country France Department Morbihan Intercommunality Pays du Roi Morvan Area 85.4 km² Arrondissement Pontivy | Region Brittany Canton Gourin Population (1999) 1,918 Local time Sunday 2:34 PM | |
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Weather 10°C, Wind NW at 27 km/h, 87% Humidity | ||
Langonnet (Breton: Langoned) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.
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Map of Langonnet, France
Geography
Langonnet is in north-west part of Cornouaille, in Lower Brittany. It's one of the few Cornouaille parishes that are now in the Morbihan department. Thus the main language was the Breton language until the advent of intensive farming after the second world war at which point the people switched to the French language.
The parish holds two main human settlements:
In the south-east there's the Notre-Dame de Langonnet abbey.
The highest point of the parish the calotte Saint Joseph, a round hill whose top is at 292 meters. It offers a nice view over the surrounding area (most of the parish is at 190 meter level).
Etymology
Its Breton name is written Langoned in modern breton but it has been written differently along the years (because of different tentatives to transcribe the Breton phonetic system with the Latin alphabet):
The Langoned name is said to come from Lann-Conet, the monastery (See lan in Breton, llan in welsh language) of Conet (or Conoit, Konoed, Kon(n)ed, Konoid = Cynwyd, Kynwyd or Kynyd in welsh), a Welsh saint that came in Brittany.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Langonnet are called in French Langonnetais, in Breton Langonediz.
Breton language
The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 27 January 2005.