southern Wales the people work mainly in industry (principally in the coal mines). In northern Wales the main occupation is agriculture (cattle raising). In the northern area, the Welsh language has been preserved to a certain degree, as well as indigenous features of material and spiritual ...
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speakers of Latin, hence Old High GermanWalh,Walah"Celt, Roman, Gaulish," and Old NorseVal-land"France,"Valir"Gauls, non-Germanic inhabitants of France" (Danishvælsk"Italian, French, southern"). It is from Proto-Germanic*Walkhiskaz, from a Celtic tribal name represented by LatinVolc...
The county of Gwynedd, located in the northwest region of Wales " forms part of what is termed the heartland of the Welsh language" (Lindsay, 1993: 1); it is also home to the largest density of speakers (Crystal, 1994; Aitchison & Carter, 1994; Jones, 1997). Whereas Gwynedd used to...
It was still shocking to see the large drop in the number of Welsh speakers which now means that Welsh is a minority language in the county of Dafydd ap Gwilym and Dic Jones. But though the language seems to be in a condition of continual crisis, all is not lost. If we work toget...
Then I realized, of course, that the colony Phillip was governor of was New South Wales… but was “Welsh” really used like that? The OED entry, revised in 2011, was full of interesting things (1.b.Having the status of a slave or slaves.Obsolete.rare. Only in Old English;2.b.de...
A notice by Llangattock-Vibon-Avel Community Council states: "The village of Rockfield has been known as such over the past several centuries.Very detailed research has not revealed any othername being used by either Welsh or English speakers."The name Llanoronwy was introduced by ...