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to think that most welsh people should speak some welsh

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mumof2children · 01/10/2010 00:53

i am no way fluent in welsh by know very basic welsh.

but sould more welsh people speak some welsh

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pointydog · 03/10/2010 19:25

ah ok. Is it comprehensible to other Irish folk?

Ariesgirl · 03/10/2010 19:25

Ah, thank you :) I just did I think.

abr1de · 03/10/2010 22:17

I would imagine so. Anyone hear speak it?

mathanxiety · 04/10/2010 00:31

Wealas is also a root of Walloon.

Ulster Scots is a dialect of English. I don't find it as hard to follow as Glaswegian. I speak Hiberno-English myself for the most part.

pointydog · 04/10/2010 18:11

There is, of course, much debate about whether Scots and variants thereof is a language at all, or just a dialect.

Ariesgirl · 04/10/2010 18:24

James I (VI) spoke lowland Scots when he came down from Scotland to be king in 1603. No one in England could understand a bloody word he said.

pointydog · 04/10/2010 21:05

Yeah, lots of english still can't, doesn't necessarily make it a separate language though.

DustDustDust · 07/10/2010 18:37

I think they should. I'm not even Welsh, but we moved here when I was younger. Every member of my family made the effort to learn Welsh. It astounds me when natives are so dismissive of their language.
My parents speak Irish as well, and I can speak it to some extent. Irish is dying out and people here don't realize that this could easily happen to Welsh too.

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