Croeso i Iaith y Nefoedd!

"But Welsh is a dying language, isn't it?"

Oh, it's anything but -- and hopefully after you've looked around a bit through this section of my site, you'll realize that not only is it not dying, but it's one of the brightest, most vibrant living languages on the globe, spoken every day by over half a million people.

And yet the myth of Welsh as a dead or dying language persists, due to the steps taken in decades past to push Welsh into the kitchen and out of the official world of schools and government. Today's Welsh schools are required to teach Welsh to their students up to the age of 16, but in the late 1800s and early 1900s, children who spoke Welsh in school were castigated for it. As a result, Welsh grandparents today are often amazed at how at home their grandchildren are in the Welsh language -- which they themselves do not speak. Not all Welsh speak the language, but the younger you are the more likely you are to do so, a fact which bodes very well for the continued survival of this supposedly "dead" language.

So let's go -- the Language of Heaven awaits!