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Language Resource Assessment

Welsh

ICL – UNI HEIDELBERG – HS LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGES – KATHARINA ALLGAIER – 18.04.2016

Cymraeg

 Celtic language  can be traced back to 600 AD   was spoken widely all over GB  Spoken in Wales (ca. 600.000), England (100.000

– 150.000), Argentina (Chubut province in Patagonia, 5.000-25.000)

  Ca. 750 000 speakers worldwide   only 20% of Welsh population   50% at the beginning of the 20th century  28% report to have some knowledge of it  about 1.5 million can ‚understand‘ it worldwide  Official provincial language in Wales  UNESCO vitality: vulnerable

Language Grouping Number of native speakers Number of people who have one or more skills in the language Welsh - Cymraeg Brittonic 562,000 (19.0% of the population

• f Wales) self-certify that they

"can speak Welsh" (2011) Around 947,700 (2011) total speakers — Wales: 788,000 (26.7% of Welsh population) — England: 150,000 — Chubut Province, Argentina: 5,000 — United States: 2,500 — Canada: 2,200 Irish - Gaeilge Goidelic 40,000–80,000 In the Republic of Ireland 94,000 people use Irish daily

• utside the education system

1,887,437 Republic of Ireland: 1,774,437 United Kingdom: 95,000 United States: 18,000 Breton - Brezhoneg Brittonic 206,000 356,000, mainly in Brittany(France) Scottish Gaelic - Gàidhlig Goidelic 57,375 (2011) in Scotland as well as 1,275 (2011) in Nova Scotia 87,056 (2011) in Scotland Cornish - Kernewek Brittonic 600 3,000, mainly in Cornwall Manx - Gaelg Goidelic 100+, including a small number of children who are new native speakers 1,823, mainly on the Isle of Man

Revitalisation

 Welsh Language Act of 1993: “in the course of public

business and the administration of justice, so far as is reasonably practicable, the Welsh and English languages are to be treated on the basis of equality.”

 Welsh obligatory in schools as first or second language  Encourage learners +increase possibilities of every day

use

 National Eisteddfod  Promotion of the language  everything in Wales is

bilingual

 Welsh TV and radio station, newspaper, magazines  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyvJORl0Wqk

Corpora and Tools

 OLAC various spoken + written documentations  http://www.language-archives.org/language/cym

http://search.language-archives.org/search.html?q=welsh

 Speech Corpora  Lexicons  Grammars  Y Beibl yn Gymraeg (Welsh Bible) -

https://archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_cym_gen-1#page/n1/mode/2up

 Corpus of Historical Welsh  Patagonia Corpus

 Donnelly, Kevin and Margaret Deuchar. “Using constraint grammar in

the Bangor Autoglosser to disambiguate multilingual spoken text”. Bangor University.

Sources

 http://www.ethnologue.com/language/cym  http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltische_Sprachen  http://www.omniglot.com/writing/welsh.htm  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages  http://gov.wales/newsroom/welshlanguage/2015/151126-welsh-

language-survey/?lang=en

 http://gov.wales/topics/welshlanguage/?lang=en

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