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| | Welsh language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This report quickly became known as Brad y Llyfrau Gleision (The Treachery of the Blue Books) as, apart from documenting the state of education in Wales, the Commissioners were also free with their comments disparaging the language, Non-conformity, and the morals of the Welsh people in general. | | | As Germanic and Gaelic colonisation of Great Britain proceeded, the Brythonic speakers in Wales were split off from those in northern England, speaking Cumbrian, and those in the south-west, speaking what would become Cornish, and so the languages diverged. | | | Although Welsh is a minority language, and thus threatened by the dominance of English, support for the language grew during the second half of the 20th century, along with the rise of nationalist political organisations such as the political party Plaid Cymru and Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language?Welsh_language
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| | Welsh (language) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Welsh (language) |
| | Nowadays, few Welsh people speak only Welsh; they are either bilingual or speak only English. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | During the 20th century the decline of Welsh has been slowed: from about 900,000 speakers at the turn of the century, the number had shrunk to half a million in 1995. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Welsh+(language)
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| | Welsh language - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Welsh language |
| | Welsh language, member of the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | At one time, during the Hellenistic period, Celtic speech extended all the way from Britain and the Iberian Peninsula in the west across Europe to Asia Minor in the east, where a district still known as Galatia recalls the former presence there of Celtic-speaking Gauls. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Welsh+language
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