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This is a list of subdivisions of Wales by the percentage of those professing some skills in the Welsh language in the 2011 UK census. The census did not record Welsh-speakers living outside Wales. The census determined that 18.56% of the population could speak Welsh and 14.57% could speak, read and write in the language. [1]
The percentage of people able to speak Welsh is the lowest recorded in over eight years at 27.7%, government statistics indicate. There were around 851,700 Welsh speakers in Wales in the year ...
Video of a Welsh speaker. Welsh (Cymraeg [kəmˈraːiɡ] ⓘ or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). [8]
In 2021 an estimated 538,000 people in Wales aged three years and over (17.8%) reported being able to speak Welsh – down from 562,000 in 2011.
The number of Welsh speakers in other places in Britain is uncertain, but there are significant numbers in the main cities, and there are speakers along the Welsh-English border. Even among Welsh speakers, very few people speak only Welsh, with nearly all being bilingual in English. However, a large number of Welsh speakers are more comfortable ...
For the year ending 30 June 2022, the Welsh Annual Population Survey showed that 29.7% (899,500) people aged three or older were able to speak Welsh. [12] According to the 2021 census , 17.8% (538,300 people) of Wales' population, aged 3 or older, can speak Welsh, a decrease from 19% in 2011.
Welsh-language poster for the First World War-era Derby Scheme (1915) According to the 1911 census, out of a population of just under 2.5 million, 43.5% of those aged three years and upwards in Wales and Monmouthshire spoke Welsh (8.5% monoglot Welsh speakers, 35% bilingual in English and Welsh). This was a decrease from the 1891 census with 49 ...
The proportion of respondents in the 2011 census who said they could speak Welsh. Y Fro Gymraeg (literally ' The Welsh Language Area ', pronounced [ə vroː ˈɡəmrɑːɨɡ]) is a name often used to refer to the linguistic area in Wales where the Welsh language is used by the majority or a large part of the population; [1] it is the heartland of the Welsh language and comparable in that ...