History and Status of the Welsh Language:
"What is Welsh?
Welsh is one of the Celtic languages still spoken, perhaps that with the greatest number of speakers. The only natural communities of speakers are in that part of Britain which is called Wales, and a small colony in Patagonia (in the Chubut province of Argentina), although there are many speakers of Welsh elsewhere, particularly in England and Australia and the United States of America.
The English names of the Welsh language (in Welsh, y Gymraeg) and the Welsh people (y Cymry) and Wales (Cymru) derive from a Germanic name for foreigners that crops up elsewhere in Europe in the same way, and which comes from a Latin name for a lost Celtic people, the Volcae.
Isn't Welsh just a dialect of English?
No. It is a language with an older pedigree, and a distinct one."
About tine I learned the language of my ancestors but I was raised as a monoglot anglophone
We learned LATIN at the age of 8 - which grammar ruled until CHOMSKY.
Then a sort of book French where reading and writing took priority over speaking.
I dropped lartin at 14 in favour of maths and science - in USA math
Google Search: monoglot anglophone saxon OR as the welsh say <strong> BLOODY SAXONS !!!
Tomorrow I'm visiting Heartlands hospital for a minor operation - medical details go in the BLOOG along with other gruesomnesses, like other BLOGS and DARWINS.
So it might be another blogfree day
Hugh Watkins
"What is Welsh?
Welsh is one of the Celtic languages still spoken, perhaps that with the greatest number of speakers. The only natural communities of speakers are in that part of Britain which is called Wales, and a small colony in Patagonia (in the Chubut province of Argentina), although there are many speakers of Welsh elsewhere, particularly in England and Australia and the United States of America.
The English names of the Welsh language (in Welsh, y Gymraeg) and the Welsh people (y Cymry) and Wales (Cymru) derive from a Germanic name for foreigners that crops up elsewhere in Europe in the same way, and which comes from a Latin name for a lost Celtic people, the Volcae.
Isn't Welsh just a dialect of English?
No. It is a language with an older pedigree, and a distinct one."
About tine I learned the language of my ancestors but I was raised as a monoglot anglophone
We learned LATIN at the age of 8 - which grammar ruled until CHOMSKY.
Then a sort of book French where reading and writing took priority over speaking.
I dropped lartin at 14 in favour of maths and science - in USA math
Google Search: monoglot anglophone saxon OR as the welsh say <strong> BLOODY SAXONS !!!
Tomorrow I'm visiting Heartlands hospital for a minor operation - medical details go in the BLOOG along with other gruesomnesses, like other BLOGS and DARWINS.
So it might be another blogfree day
Hugh Watkins
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