• 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.
  • A modern Welsh literature was created in which the various prose genres enjoyed almost the same esteem as the poetic, and drama flourished for the first time.
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  • 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).
  • 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!
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  • 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.
  • However, it experienced a resurgence during the Middle Ages, when Welsh poets and bards produced a large body of Welsh-language literature.
  • Moreover, at that time frame, Welsh poetry was also witnessed. Despite of Anglo-Norman conquest, Welsh was used as an official language.
  • Irish has close to 2 million speakers, most of whom are in the Republic of Ireland; Welsh has about 1 million speakers, and most reside in Wales.