Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. If you say, “Alexa, faint o’r gloch yw hi?” the smart speaker will not understand that you are asking for the ...

Peredur Webb-Davies works for Bangor University and has received research grant funding in the past from the ESRC and Research Council UK. The Welsh language, Cymraeg, has changed linguistically a lot ...

The first Welsh poets included Aneirin and Taliesin, whose work descended from the tradition of the druids. Sometime between 400 and 700 AD, Brittonic developed into four different languages: Early ...

Welsh was actively discouraged in schools by means including the hated Welsh Not. The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots broke out across the country.

A Newport primary school has been praised for bolstering pupils’ independent learning skills and Welsh language and cultural proficiency ...

A Newport primary school has been praised for bolstering pupils’ independent learning skills and Welsh language and cultural ...

This post is part of a special Global Voices series on Welsh language and digital media in collaboration with Hacio'r Iaith. According to UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger the Welsh ...

General use of the Welsh language by children and young people outside school is "limited" and there are "negative" attitudes towards the language among a "significant" minority, a survey from the ...

The Welsh Language Commissioner has unveiled a five-year plan to help achieve a target of one million Welsh language speakers by 2050. Speaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Efa Gruffudd Jones has ...

The Welsh government has signed a partnership deal with OpenAI as part of a plan to increase Welsh speakers in the country. The government believes that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can ...