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This category includes actors and actresses who speak the Welsh language, regardless of whether they appear in Welsh-language productions. Pages in category "Welsh-speaking actors" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
Thomas was fervently attached to the Royal Family and also strongly opposed to Plaid Cymru, and particularly to the Welsh Language Society. In 1974 Thomas was elected Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. Two years later he succeeded Selwyn Lloyd as Speaker of the House of Commons. The first broadcasting of ...
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]
The local authority (Llanelli Rural District) was 84% Welsh-speaking in 1951, and Lewis pointed out that all the Rural District's councillors and officials were Welsh speakers. [19] At the end of the eight-year battle, during which the Beasleys three times had their furniture taken by bailiffs, bilingual tax demands were finally issued.
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 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 ...
He also released recordings with the Welsh recording label Cambrian. As a well-known figure in Wales, Jones was regularly lampooned in the Welsh satirical cartoon series Cnex. He published his autobiography in 1997, entitled Fi Dai Sy' 'Ma. [5] It was translated into English by Lyn Ebeneser and published as Dai and let live in 2004. [6]
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.