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The Welsh government now recognises that Welsh is not just a “subject”, and that the successful acquisition of it as a second language requires it to be taught in a meaningful manner.
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.
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]
This gave an impetus to the movement for Welsh language education. [2] While the 1944 Education Act does not mention the Welsh language, parts of the act became a legal basis for Welsh-medium schools. [22] The first state school of this type was opened in Llanelli in 1947 and there were ten such institutions within two years. [23]
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. Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic.
English: A Measure of the National Assembly for Wales to make provision about the official status of the Welsh language in Wales; to provide for a Welsh Language Partnership Council; to establish the Office of Welsh Language Commissioner; to provide for an Advisory Panel to the Welsh Language Commissioner; to make provision about promoting and facilitating the use of the Welsh language and ...
Welsh: The Black Book of Chirk: Codex; First record of Hywel Dda's Welsh laws: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd Llyfr Aneirin: 2nd half of 13th century: Old/Middle Welsh: The Book of Aneurin: Poetry: Aneurin Cronicon de Wallia Late 13th Century Latin The Chronicles of Wales Welsh history during the period 1190–1266. From Exeter Cathedral. [6] Llyfr Coch ...
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