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There is a Welsh-language online news service which publishes news stories in Welsh called Golwg360 ('360 [degree] view'). As of March 2021, there were 58 local Welsh language community newspapers, known as Papurau Bro, in circulation. [89]
In both 2011 and 2021, Polish was the most spoken main language after Welsh and English, accounting for 0.7% of the population (21,000), up from 0.6% in 2011. Arabic was the next most common main language in Wales at 0.3%, up from 0.2% in 2011. [3] British Sign Language (BSL) was the preferred language of 900 (0.03%), up from 800 in 2011.
Welsh remained strong in the north-west and in parts of mid-Wales and south-west Wales. Rural Wales was a stronghold of the Welsh language, and so also were the industrial slate-quarrying communities of Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire. [9] Many of the nonconformist churches throughout Wales were strongly associated with the Welsh language.
Academics at Swansea University compared minority and majority language speakers’ social media responses.
Welsh is an official language in Wales and Irish is an official language of Ireland and of the European Union. Welsh is the only Celtic language not classified as endangered by UNESCO. The Cornish and Manx languages became extinct in modern times but have been revived. Each now has several hundred second-language speakers.
Today, many of the communities with the highest numbers of Welsh speakers are found in the traditional area for Ddyfedeg. As such, it is one of the most common forms of Welsh spoken today. The dialect (along with Gwenhwyseg and Powyseg ) also forms a major constituent part of the wider "Southwalian dialect".
The last thing you would expect to find on your holiday in the Czech Republic is a sign warning you about a wet floor written in Welsh. But that is exactly what happened to Dion Jones, from ...
Welsh remains the predominant language in many parts of Wales, particularly in North Wales and parts of West Wales, though English is the predominant language in South Wales. The Welsh language is also taught in schools in Wales; and, even in regions of Wales in which Welsh people predominantly speak English on a daily basis, the Welsh language ...