Re: Notes and queries about Welsh

["Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@clara.co.uk>]

At 10:40 am -0800 22/1/99, John Schilke wrote:
>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.

This, alas, is also my understanding of the matter.  I'm told it's even
succumbed to Spanish in the Chapels, the last bastion of the Welsh
language.  The only sad remnant being that the older generation speak
Spanish with a Welsh accent.  :=(

Ray.