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The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. [13] Welsh and English are de jure official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd, [14] with Welsh being the only de jure official language in any part of the United Kingdom, with English being merely de facto official. [15]
The languages of Wales include the Welsh language, which is an official language of Wales, and English, which is also considered an official language in Wales. [5] [6] The official languages of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) are also Welsh and English. According to the 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was ...
The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 modernised the 1993 Welsh Language Act and gave Welsh an official status in Wales for the first time, a major landmark for the language. Welsh is the only official de jure language of any country in the UK.
The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (Welsh: Mesur y Gymraeg (Cymru) 2011) is an act of the National Assembly for Wales that established several provisions with regard to Welsh as an official language of Wales.
Welsh is an official language in Wales as legislated by the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011. [192] Both Welsh and English are also official languages of the Senedd. [ 193 ] The proportion of the Welsh population able to speak the Welsh language fell from just under 50 per cent in 1901 to 43.5 per cent in 1911, and continued to fall to a low ...
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.
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 ...
It is a bilingual institution, with both Welsh and English being the official languages of its business. [5] From its creation in May 1999 until May 2020, the Senedd was officially known as the National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) and was often simply called the Welsh Assembly. [6]