Welsh and the Other Dying Languages in Europe: A Sociolinguistic Study |
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... area is high , Welsh is used to a large extent in the intercourse between the public and the authorities . And within these dense Welsh areas the rural people make more natural use of the language than the people of the small towns of ...
... area is high , Welsh is used to a large extent in the intercourse between the public and the authorities . And within these dense Welsh areas the rural people make more natural use of the language than the people of the small towns of ...
Page 31
... areas , did not want to and there- fore did not learn Welsh , whilst the Welshmen in these areas had to learn English . On the other hand , the Welsh immigrants to the industrial areas of England had hardly any practical use for their ...
... areas , did not want to and there- fore did not learn Welsh , whilst the Welshmen in these areas had to learn English . On the other hand , the Welsh immigrants to the industrial areas of England had hardly any practical use for their ...
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... area the town of Udine is the cultural , administrative and economic centre . The prestige of Friulian has diminished in our century . The urban areas use increasingly more the Venetian dialect of Italian or standard Italian , but the ...
... area the town of Udine is the cultural , administrative and economic centre . The prestige of Friulian has diminished in our century . The urban areas use increasingly more the Venetian dialect of Italian or standard Italian , but the ...
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ancestral language areas attitude Basque Basque language became become bilingual bilingual children Breton language Celtic languages century child Cornish Cornish language courts culture dialects disappear economic English-speaking Europe fact feel France French Frisian Friulian Gaelic language Gaelic League Gaelic speakers Gaeltacht German Grisons Harald Haarmann Herausgegeben hostile industrialisation intelligence Ireland Irish Gaelic Irish language Irish Republic Jews Jones language alive languages spoken Lapps large number learn Welsh lingual linguistic literary literature Lord Raglan lower language Lusatian mainly middle class minority language monoglot children mother tongue non-verbal number of speakers number of Welsh official language parents Plaid Cymru Provençal published Raeto-Romance reason revival road signs rural Scottish Gaelic second language Slav Slavonic social Spain Spanish speak Welsh spite standard survival taught teaching tion true valleys vocabulary Wels Welsh Language Society Welsh National Welsh nationalists Welsh speakers Welsh-speaking Welshmen whilst words writes Yiddish