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Welsh (Cymraeg, y Gymraeg)
Region: United Kingdom (Wales, England), Argentina (Chubut Province)
Native speakers: Wales: 857,600 speakers (28.4% of the population of Wales, 2019)
England: 110,000 (2001, estimated), Argentina: 1,500-5,000, Canada: L1,3,885, United States: 2,235 (2009–2013) (2017)
Language family: Indo-European (Celtic)

is a Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. It is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric".

According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, 19 percent of residents in Wales aged three and over were able to speak Welsh. According to the 2001 Census, 21 percent of the population aged 3+ were able to speak Welsh. This suggests that there was a decrease in the number of Welsh speakers in Wales from 2001 to 2011 – from about 582,000 to 562,000 respectively.

The Annual Population Survey conducted by the Office for National Statistics for the year ending in March 2020 concluded that 855,200 Welsh residents (28.3 percent) aged three or over were able to speak Welsh. The results for the most recent National Survey for Wales (2018-2019) suggest that 22 percent of the population aged three and over were able to speak Welsh, with an additional 16 percent noting that they had "some Welsh-speaking ability".

The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales, making it the only language that is de jure official in any part of the United Kingdom, with English being de facto official. The Welsh language, along with English, is also a de jure official language of the Senedd. The Welsh government plan to have one million Welsh language speakers by 2050. There has been an increase in children going to Welsh-medium schools since 1980 and a decrease in those going to Welsh bilingual and dual-medium schools.

LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language
https://omniglot.com/writing/welsh.htm
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/welsh/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/13/welsh-speaking-bilingual-tv-thrillers-cool
https://gov.wales/welsh-language
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/Welsh-Language/
https://www.jw.org/en/

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