Another reason Twitter is awesome: Cambridge University linguists are using it to track how the usage of one of the U.K.’s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing. Welsh is only spoken by around a sixth ...

Here in Wales, nearly 30% of the population can speak Welsh, which is around 891,800 people Welsh speakers. But, not everyone speaks the same sort of Welsh - while we understand each other, we ...

Helen Fulton examines the case study of the Medieval March of Wales, a vibrant multicultural border region between Wales and England ...

IN THE Blue Boar, a pub so local that the landlord is surprised to hear its sign is missing, Roy Thomas picks up a text from his grandson. It contains the word “brechdanau”, meaning sandwiches. A ...

Councillor Llio Elenid Owen, Cyngor Gwynedd's cabinet member with responsibility for the Welsh Language, who presented the ...

Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens has been accused of showing "an incredible lack of respect and a dinosaur-like attitude" to the Welsh language by a Plaid Cymru politician.

Us Welsh have all sorts of quirks, and one of them is the language we often speak day to day. As well as having the Welsh language, we also have a few "Welshisms" that other people wouldn't really ...

Two of the greatest novels in English literature have been published in the Welsh language for the first time ever. Translations of Geroge Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 have been brought out - with ...

Rob McElhenney's attempts to learn Welsh provided a highlight of television show Welcome to Wrexham. But if things had been different, the language may not have been so alien to him - and he might ...

A bill aiming to put into law the Welsh government's target of a million Welsh speakers by 2050 has been published. Labour said its plans would help all schoolchildren have a “fair opportunity” to ...

Welsh words that mean the same but are totally different across the country From llaeth to llefrith to cacen or teisen there are distinct dialects to one of the world's oldest languages and we all ...