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About 610,000 folk speak Welsh today, though nearly all also speak [[English tongue|English]]. Welsh is a near kin tongue to [[Cornish tongue|Cornish]] and [[Breton tongue|Breton]], and, though further away, to [[Irish tongue|Irish]], [[Scottish Gaelic tongue|Scottish Gaelic]] and [[Manx tongue|Manx]]. |
About 610,000 folk speak Welsh today, though nearly all also speak [[English tongue|English]]. Welsh is a near kin tongue to [[Cornish tongue|Cornish]] and [[Breton tongue|Breton]], and, though further away, to [[Irish tongue|Irish]], [[Scottish Gaelic tongue|Scottish Gaelic]] and [[Manx tongue|Manx]]. |
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| − | + | The Welsh tongue is matched with the olden Celtic tongue spoken in Britishland from before the oncoming of the English. The Welsh tongue word for "England" is "Lloegr" which means "The lost lands". The deal of Welsh speakers was shrinking for many hundreds of years as [[English tongue|English]] spread into formerly Welsh-speaking lands, but in the nineteen hundreds the tongue began to grow again as more and more folk fostered the tongue as a token of Welsh [[selfhood]]. |
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The most nameknown [[bookcraft]] in Welsh is the gathering of tales known as the ''[[Mabinogion]]''. |
The most nameknown [[bookcraft]] in Welsh is the gathering of tales known as the ''[[Mabinogion]]''. |
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Revision as of 15:42, 7 August 2010
Welsh is a tongue of the Brythonic arm of Celtic spoken mainly in Wales, though some speakers dwell in England and Argentina.
About 610,000 folk speak Welsh today, though nearly all also speak English. Welsh is a near kin tongue to Cornish and Breton, and, though further away, to Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx.
The Welsh tongue is matched with the olden Celtic tongue spoken in Britishland from before the oncoming of the English. The Welsh tongue word for "England" is "Lloegr" which means "The lost lands". The deal of Welsh speakers was shrinking for many hundreds of years as English spread into formerly Welsh-speaking lands, but in the nineteen hundreds the tongue began to grow again as more and more folk fostered the tongue as a token of Welsh selfhood.
The most nameknown bookcraft in Welsh is the gathering of tales known as the Mabinogion.