All over the world, people are increasingly looking for more effective language education. In the US, for example, there are now more than 800 dual language programmes aiming to produce bilingual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The problem has been mostly blamed on the lack of political coverage by English language media in Wales. Major outlets like the ...