I made a vid discussing this last year but with a focus on the general movement of humans and the political effects of the mass movements of humans. So glad scholars are taking the time to make podcasts on the subject.
In Switzerland many people speak 2 of the 4 official languages spoken. In Spain, Belgium, Canada, Wales and Finland and other countries there are two widely spoken official languages. Many of the lesser-educated English people say, "Really, that's hard to believe. I must travel more."
The hilarity is unavoidable. The political power of the English language is phenomenal, yet the little Welsh nation has an appreciable number of people who live on the British island yet naturally speak a different language to English as the first language. “They just have to be different don’t they?” I say all this being a bi-lingual Welsh man living in Surrey.
This guest historian speaks about English censorship of the Welsh language and enforced shame, yet he himself is reticent to use the words Anglo Saxon and indigenous. I won't be buying his book.
A tiny lesson: Two related dying Gaelic tongues, one in W. Ireland and one in the Scottish islands, are spoken or so I was told. The Welsh tongue, Cymraeg, almost killed by the English but now thriving is similar to Breton and both are very distantly related to Gaelic. All are considered to be Celtic. For more about this visit Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. I adore finding ignorance; it gives me a chance to educate.
I wouldn't accuse people of being 'ignorant' if I were you. You're obviously as ignorant yourself and you are arrogant and divisive,. Didn't you listen to the discussion? Welsh was not 'nearly destroyed by 'the English' (as you so divisively call them). Huge numbers of English speaking migrants came into Wales in the 18th and 19th Century (largely into Glamorgan and Monmouthshire) including at least 30,000 English speaking migrants from Ireland and Welsh speakers who'd also migrated there from the Wales countryside chose to join in to fit in with them. The UK would no doubt have preferred English to Welsh but did very little practical to discourage Welsh speaking, even in schools. Most Welsh speaking parents however wanted their children to learn English, so put pressure on schools to make their children to learn it. The Welsh language is NOT thriving. It's compulsory to exhibit it everywhere, and have it on TV since 1982, but the proportion of inhabitants of Wales claiming to be able to speak Welsh has dropped to an all time low of 17.8% in the 2021 census, compared with 19% in 2011, a whopping 37% 100 years ago and at least 60%. In the heavily populated parts of South East Wales, the numbers able to speak Welsh, are as low as 5% and you hardly ever hear it spoken there. You can't force people to learn a language they see no use for. Welsh is not simply 'one of two related Celtic tongues';. Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx and Welsh belong to the 'Celtic' branch of Indo-European. But English is also Indo European. The so called 'Celtic' variant of Indo European, divides into two distinct subgroups: P-Celtic (or Brythonic) and Q-Celtic (or Goidelic). Cornish and Welsh are P-Celtic languages, whilst Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx are Q-Celtic languages. Breton is most closely related to Cornish, a Southwestern Brittonic language. Welsh and the extinct Cumbric, (both Western Brittonic languages), are more distantly related, and the Goidelic languages (Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic) have a slight connection due to both of their origins being from Insular Celtic. There are also enormous variations of Welsh within Wales. 250 years ago people from North West and South East Wales would have had difficulty understanding one another. Not that it would have mattered, because they'd never have met anyway.
@@donaldedward4951 Celt is a Greek word meaning the arseholes north west of us, English is a Celtic language in that sense 😕 Rather I think you mean, Britannic Sub-Celtic languages 😐
I made a vid discussing this last year but with a focus on the general movement of humans and the political effects of the mass movements of humans. So glad scholars are taking the time to make podcasts on the subject.
Thank you for the video
In Switzerland many people speak 2 of the 4 official languages spoken. In Spain, Belgium, Canada, Wales and Finland and other countries there are two widely spoken official languages. Many of the lesser-educated English people say, "Really, that's hard to believe. I must travel more."
Anybody know what the 'ghost of the roman empire' episode is they're talking about here?
The hilarity is unavoidable. The political power of the English language is phenomenal, yet the little Welsh nation has an appreciable number of people who live on the British island yet naturally speak a different language to English as the first language. “They just have to be different don’t they?” I say all this being a bi-lingual Welsh man living in Surrey.
Odd that the current foremost Tudor historian has been cancelled and never referred to 😁
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This guest historian speaks about English censorship of the Welsh language and enforced shame, yet he himself is reticent to use the words Anglo Saxon and indigenous. I won't be buying his book.
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Its adorable how the celts pretend that they speak Gaelic.
A tiny lesson: Two related dying Gaelic tongues, one in W. Ireland and one in the Scottish islands, are spoken or so I was told. The Welsh tongue, Cymraeg, almost killed by the English but now thriving is similar to Breton and both are very distantly related to Gaelic. All are considered to be Celtic. For more about this visit Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. I adore finding ignorance; it gives me a chance to educate.
@@donaldedward4951is there not two different dielectric, north and south Wales also Cornwall and Isle of Man
I wouldn't accuse people of being 'ignorant' if I were you. You're obviously as ignorant yourself and you are arrogant and divisive,.
Didn't you listen to the discussion?
Welsh was not 'nearly destroyed by 'the English' (as you so divisively call them). Huge numbers of English speaking migrants came into Wales in the 18th and 19th Century (largely into Glamorgan and Monmouthshire) including at least 30,000 English speaking migrants from Ireland and Welsh speakers who'd also migrated there from the Wales countryside chose to join in to fit in with them.
The UK would no doubt have preferred English to Welsh but did very little practical to discourage Welsh speaking, even in schools. Most Welsh speaking parents however wanted their children to learn English, so put pressure on schools to make their children to learn it.
The Welsh language is NOT thriving. It's compulsory to exhibit it everywhere, and have it on TV since 1982, but the proportion of inhabitants of Wales claiming to be able to speak Welsh has dropped to an all time low of 17.8% in the 2021 census, compared with 19% in 2011, a whopping 37% 100 years ago and at least 60%.
In the heavily populated parts of South East Wales, the numbers able to speak Welsh, are as low as 5% and you hardly ever hear it spoken there. You can't force people to learn a language they see no use for.
Welsh is not simply 'one of two related Celtic tongues';.
Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx and Welsh belong to the 'Celtic' branch of Indo-European. But English is also Indo European.
The so called 'Celtic' variant of Indo European, divides into two distinct subgroups: P-Celtic (or Brythonic) and Q-Celtic (or Goidelic). Cornish and Welsh are P-Celtic languages, whilst Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx are Q-Celtic languages.
Breton is most closely related to Cornish, a Southwestern Brittonic language. Welsh and the extinct Cumbric, (both Western Brittonic languages), are more distantly related, and the Goidelic languages (Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic) have a slight connection due to both of their origins being from Insular Celtic.
There are also enormous variations of Welsh within Wales. 250 years ago people from North West and South East Wales would have had difficulty understanding one another. Not that it would have mattered, because they'd never have met anyway.
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Celt is a Greek word meaning the arseholes north west of us, English is a Celtic language in that sense 😕
Rather I think you mean, Britannic Sub-Celtic languages 😐