- 19.0 per cent of usual residents in Wales aged three and over reported that they could speak Welsh in the United Kingdom Census 2011.
- But what exactly is the Welsh language, why do people learn it, and how can you go about starting on your Welsh-speaking journey? Let’s have a look.
- Welsh began to emerge as a distinctive language sometime between 400 and 700 AD as we can see from early Welsh poetry that originated around this period.
- And being a phonetic language, only c is used to convey the k sound, for instance. U is a vowel in Welsh (similar to the German umlaut).
- Many Welsh primary and secondary schools provide Welsh-medium education to over 82,000 children. The language is widely used on the radio and TV.
- Modern Welsh, like English, makes very little use of inflectional endings; British, the Brythonic language from which Welsh is descended, was, however, an...
- How typical of us that the word designates a sporting term, especially when we remember that to welsh is to avoid payment or to break one's word!
- Because just before the end of regular playing time, the Welsh smelled, when Orange was already in the locker room with their thoughts, that a draw was still possible.
- The Welsh people are Celtic (central and western European) in origin and have their own language and cultural heritage.
- Discover the origins and history of Britain’s oldest language, Welsh, and how it's used on a daily basis in modern Wales.