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  • Thank you for the information.

    Reading up on it, it looks like the practice ended around the beginning of the 20th century

    However, there is no written evidence of the practice being used after 1900.[43]

    The Wikipedia article on Welsh doesn’t go into any detail about its suppression beyond that time. It took Wales about 100 years (Act in 2010) to establish Welsh as a nationally recognized language. That’s why I was asking the questions. What happened in those 100 years for Welsh not to develop?

    Regardless, the language is listed as “vulnerable” but numbers are picking up again. Since there aren’t that many Welsh people in existence, I imagine the max number of speakers is quite limited. For the number of C programmers to drop below it, it’ll probably be another 50-100 years. If ever.








  • How long have Welsh people have internet? How many Welsh people have and had the means to archive the language, maybe even try and popularise it? How long was the Welsh government held back from (and probably they were) from teaching it a schools? Did nobody have the chance to create free, accessible Welsh courses for anybody to access? How many Welsh people that could speak it made an effort to teach their kids and others?

    There are options to keep language alive. I can understand it being wiped out (many examples and ways to do so), but if it survives and the people speaking it don’t make an effort to spread it, modernise it, and adapt, then it is also self-inflicted. Look at the Baltic countries. Estonia tries to keep up with the times and allows the population to vote on Estonian words that should enter their dictionary instead of the anglicised ones.