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The languages of Wales include the Welsh language, which is an official language of Wales, and English, which is also considered an official language in Wales. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The official languages of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) are also Welsh and English.
The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. [13] Welsh and English are de jure official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd, [14] with Welsh being the only de jure official language in any part of the United Kingdom, with English being merely de facto official. [15]
The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 modernised the 1993 Welsh Language Act and gave Welsh an official status in Wales for the first time, a major landmark for the language. Welsh is the only official de jure language of any country in the UK.
Gwyndodeg or Y Wyndodeg is one of the four traditional dialects of the Welsh language. Spoken in north-west Wales, the language takes its name from the post-roman Kingdom of Gwynedd. Writing in 1900, John Rhŷs and David Brynmor Jones give a boundary for the dialect's southern extent as "the stream of Wyrai at Llanrhystud". [1]
Welsh is an official language in Wales as legislated by the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011. [192] Both Welsh and English are also official languages of the Senedd. [ 193 ] The proportion of the Welsh population able to speak the Welsh language fell from just under 50 per cent in 1901 to 43.5 per cent in 1911, and continued to fall to a low ...
The proportion of respondents in the 2011 census who said they could speak Welsh. Y Fro Gymraeg (literally ' The Welsh Language Area ', pronounced [ə vroː ˈɡəmrɑːɨɡ]) is a name often used to refer to the linguistic area in Wales where the Welsh language is used by the majority or a large part of the population; [1] it is the heartland of the Welsh language and comparable in that ...
The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (Welsh: Mesur y Gymraeg (Cymru) 2011) is an act of the National Assembly for Wales that established several provisions with regard to Welsh as an official language of Wales.
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