Re: Notes and queries about Welsh

[John Schilke <schilkej@OHSU.EDU>]

No, not specifically, but I understand that Spanish is replacing Welsh to 
a greater extent in the Patagonian Welsh and their descendants even more 
than English has in the UK and the US.  In fact, there is some talk of 
its dying out.  I have no figures, though, just memory of an article in 
Ninnau, a Welsh newspaper published here in the US.
John

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, John Cowan wrote:

> Does anybody know anything specific about Patagonian Welsh?
> 
> According to the Ethnologue, the 1971 census showed some 30,000
> monolingual Welsh-speakers, a surprisingly high number (to me, anyway),
> and some 3000 bilingual Welsh-speakers in Canada.  (Where?)  Bilingual
> Welsh-speakers in the U.K. amounted to almost 600,000.
> 
> -- 
> John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
> 	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
> 	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
> 		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
>