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Name:
Welsh
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Cymraeg; Kymrisch
Spoken in:
Canada, United Kingdom, Argentina
Number of speakers:
508,000 in United Kingdom (1991 census). 575,102 in 1971; 32,700 monolinguals, 542,402 bilinguals (1971 census). Population total all countries: 537,870
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
750000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
536258
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
cym
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Welsh (wlm)
Child Dialect Groups:
Southern Welsh (cym-sou)
Midlands Welsh (cym-mid)
Northern Welsh (cym-nor)
Child Dialect:
Patagonian Welsh (cym-pat)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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