Newyddion Gwych! Maths Predicts That Welsh Language Is Set to Thrive

New Scientist ^ | 8 January 2020 | Adam Vaughan

[nickcarraway]

The Welsh language could be set to thrive over the long-term, according to projections of whether endangered languages will flourish or fail. New Zealand’s native language on the other hand is projected to become extinct.

More than half of the world’s estimated 7000 languages are expected to go extinct by 2100. But the Welsh language, spoken by about half a million people today, is expected to “thrive in the long term”, based on a model looking at how proficiency in languages changes over time.

By contrast, te reo Maori, the language of the indigenous Maori in New Zealand, which nearly 4 per cent of the country can speak, was found to be “on a path towards extinction at current learning rates”.

The projections come from a team across three New Zealand universities, who built a model that splits populations up by looking at whether they fall into one of three levels of proficiency in a language, and how fast people learn. The model was first trained on census data in Wales and surveys of Welsh language use since 1991, and then run on te reo Māori using New Zealand census data.

[Nachoman]

Catherine Zeta Jones can speak Welsh to me anytime. It sounds dirty.

[rfp1234]

Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

It contains four consecutive L's. They should adopt the Buffalo Bills as their favorite NFL team.

[xp38]

Years ago I viewed on tv one of the very few movies ever made in welsh. A decidedly limited market to say the least. It was a bit boring and of course needed subtitles. I didn’t seek any of the few other movies made in welsh.

[Flick Lives]

Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

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That’s what happens when my keyboard gets stuck.

[nickcarraway]

I wonder if there are any movies made in Welsh?

[nickcarraway]

I wonder if there are any movies made in Welsh Manx? Corrected.

[EvilCapitalist]

Not entirely in Welsh, but How Green Was My Valley is a good Welsh movie.

[wally_bert]

https://youtu.be/Qa_gZ_7sdZg?t=136

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

Eisteddfod ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.google.com/search?q=rhod+gilbert+site:youtube.com

[Red Badger]

Well, it’s about time!.................

[Red Badger]

How can you tell if a Welshman has dyslexia?............

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[Zionist Conspirator]

While I have absolutely no aptitude for languages (Biblical Hebrew, a textual language, being the one exception), I have always been fascinated by languages. Back in high school I would check out books by Mario Pei just to see some examples of really exotic languages.

One of the greatest things about the Internet is access to so many really exotic languages (Welsh, Mongolian, Albanian, Maltese, Greenlandic, etc.).

[wildbill]

Just in time. A natural way to prevent the worrld from developing an evolutionary Twitter Thumb with all those extra letters.

[SunkenCiv]

Fear of that has kept me off Twitter for years! :^)

[SunkenCiv]

Or when the cat walks on it, hey, maybe cats are Welsh!