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Newyddion Gwych! Maths Predicts That Welsh Language Is Set to Thrive
New Scientist ^ | 8 January 2020 | Adam Vaughan

Posted on 01/08/2020 1:32:29 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; History
KEYWORDS: eisteddfod; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; languagel; llanfairpwllgwyngyll; maori; newzealand; wales; welsh
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In a world where climate change has made vowels ever more scarce, Welsh is among the most sustainable languages in the world!

1 posted on 01/08/2020 1:32:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Iechyd da!


2 posted on 01/08/2020 1:35:06 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Yea! A real language instead of ebolics whatever!


3 posted on 01/08/2020 1:39:39 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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Ardderchog!


4 posted on 01/08/2020 1:39:49 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway

Vanna White’s looking forward to a big payday!


5 posted on 01/08/2020 1:41:07 PM PST by Stosh
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To: nickcarraway

Used to have a bumper sticker:

SUPPORT THE VFW
(Vowels for Wales)


6 posted on 01/08/2020 1:42:08 PM PST by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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Welsh is very lyrical. Shame bout Maori. It too sounds really nice. Be happy to see the world’s most irritating ( to my ears) languages die out. Starting with Arabic and Vietnamese.


7 posted on 01/08/2020 1:43:46 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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Newyddion Gwych? Sounds like someone with a lisp saying Newt Gingrich.


8 posted on 01/08/2020 1:45:45 PM PST by salmon76 (Democrats are worried that American voters will interfere in the 2020 election)
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[[[Newyddion Gwych]]]

Newt Gingrich.


9 posted on 01/08/2020 1:49:16 PM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

Yes, that’s the name of a village in Wales.


10 posted on 01/08/2020 1:53:23 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: BradyLS; EvilCapitalist; decal; Long Jon No Silver; salmon76; headstamp 2
Blackadder - Directions in Wales
11 posted on 01/08/2020 1:54:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
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It takes a whale to swallow it.


12 posted on 01/08/2020 1:57:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
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It’s on Ynys Mon. I was there. I can say the name.


13 posted on 01/08/2020 1:59:03 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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One of my favorite Scrabble words is CRWTH.


14 posted on 01/08/2020 1:59:22 PM PST by RightField
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Here it is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM


15 posted on 01/08/2020 2:05:49 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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You beat me to it. We just watched an episode of The Crown where young Prince Charles tries to learn Welsh. I had seen that clip of the weatherman pronouncing the name of the town in Wales and showed it to my daughter. I think he did a great job.


16 posted on 01/08/2020 2:34:41 PM PST by freefdny
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If you want to REALLY hear Welsh, search for episodes of Pobol Y Cwm on youtube.


17 posted on 01/08/2020 2:37:14 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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Do fast people learn in a different way than slow people?


18 posted on 01/08/2020 2:43:32 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Sorry I don’t believe that many people speak Welsh on a daily basis.


19 posted on 01/08/2020 3:15:23 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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Doesn’t all that whistling, squeaks and drumming sounds piss people off? ...whisper whisper … ah Welsh! not Whalesh! Never mind!


20 posted on 01/08/2020 3:21:52 PM PST by Reily
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