Welsh and the Other Dying Languages in Europe: A Sociolinguistic Study |
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... completely unknown outside Wales and they could not earn a living with books in Welsh . In the same way as the Irish writers mentioned above and many others as well , are unmistakably Irish , so English - writing Welshmen give their ...
... completely unknown outside Wales and they could not earn a living with books in Welsh . In the same way as the Irish writers mentioned above and many others as well , are unmistakably Irish , so English - writing Welshmen give their ...
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... completely , especially not in the courts , a matter which will be discussed in more detail later . But there is no doubt that the prevalent opinion in official circles is to assist in the preservation of the Welsh language . The ...
... completely , especially not in the courts , a matter which will be discussed in more detail later . But there is no doubt that the prevalent opinion in official circles is to assist in the preservation of the Welsh language . The ...
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... completely and the Education Act of 1899 provided secondary education on a purely English pattern ( 23 ; 8 ) . No wonder that the number of Welsh - speaking people diminished dramatically towards the end of the nineteenth century and ...
... completely and the Education Act of 1899 provided secondary education on a purely English pattern ( 23 ; 8 ) . No wonder that the number of Welsh - speaking people diminished dramatically towards the end of the nineteenth century and ...
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areas attitude Basque Basque language became become bilingual children Breton Breton language Celtic languages century child Cornish Cornish language court culture dialects disappear dying languages economic English-speaking Europe fact France French Frisian Friulian Gaelic language Gaelic League Gaelic speakers Gaeltacht German Grisons HAMBURGER Harald Haarmann Herausgegeben hostile intelligence Ireland Irish Gaelic Irish language Irish Republic Irishman Jews Jones language alive languages spoken Lappish Lapps large number learn Welsh lingual linguistic literature living language Lord Raglan lower language Lusatian mainly million minority language monoglot children mother tongue number of speakers number of Welsh official language parents Plaid Cymru population Provençal Raeto-Romance reason revival rural Scottish Gaelic second language Slav Slavonic small language social Spain speak Welsh spite survival taught teaching towns true upper language verbal tests vocabulary Wales Welsh Language Society Welsh nationalists Welsh speakers Welsh-speaking Welshmen whilst words writes Yiddish