The Welsh government has a language strategy that aims to have a million people speaking Welsh by 2050. And it seems to be working: recently on TV channel S4C, 230,000 children from more than 1,000 ...

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 ...

A world without poetry would be a dire thing indeed. From Dylan Thomas’s famous villanelle Do not go gentle into that good night to Shakespeare’s famous love sonnet parody, Sonnet 130, the forms of ...

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.

Another reason Twitter is awesome: Cambridge University linguists are using it to track how the usage of one of the U.K.’s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing. Welsh is only spoken by around a sixth ...

Welsh Language Commissioner Efa Gruffudd Jones has unveiled a five-year plan to meet Welsh language targets The Welsh Language Commissioner has unveiled a five-year plan to help achieve a target of ...

At work in central Hong Kong, David Hand is surrounded by people speaking Chinese and English. But inside his home, the Welsh language rules. Hand’s three children – Arwen, Huw and Tomos – have never ...

A Welsh-language music festival is set to take centre stage in South Wales this weekend.

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 ...