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Na, dydw i ddim yn siarad Cymraeg. Hoffwn ddysgu Cymraeg. Rwyf am ymweld Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch.
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Who is rich? He who is happy with what he has - Simeon ben Zoma, Ethics of the Fathers, Talmud, Avot 4:1
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Mae gan Gymru fwy o gestyll nag unrhyw genedl arall yn y byd.
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Castell y Bere <3 dw i'n hoffi'r cestyll o Cymru. Dw i eisiau ymweld â Castell Caerffili yn y de drachefn.
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Funny. I had never seen actual written Welsh before (as being used by those who speak the language) and I thought the language was pretty much dead (except for the official motto's of the Welsh government).
Wake up and smell the coffee.
nice language, nectar to my ears
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As I said, please try to keep this thread Welsh-only (the only one in the forum!) but to answer this: Welsh is the native language of about 10% of the Welsh population (so 300,000 people), primarily concentrated in the northwest and west, where the percentage of people who are native speakers rises to over 60 in some counties and almost 100 in some villages (although there is a complex history and various towns are mostly Anglicised even in the heartlands). There are also many tens of thousands of speakers in England. Most/all have moved there, but as recently as the 1950s, it was spoken natively in western Shropshire.
Another 10% or so of Welsh people speak it fluently, but not natively.
Overall it is by far the healthiest of the Celtic language in both absolute numbers and concentration of speakers.
It's also the UK's only official language (in Wales only, of course) as English is not official, French stopped being official before the UK existed and Gaelic and other minority languages are not official to any part of the UK. Even so, it's still only the UK's third most spoken language - behind English (of course) and Polish.
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