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2 days ago · v. t. e. Video of a Welsh speaker. Welsh ( Cymraeg [kəmˈraːiɡ] ⓘ or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina ).
5 days ago · Television was the medium of the new age, and people who felt passionately about the future of the Welsh language new that it had to have access to that medium. Print was the newest medium in the sixteenth century and William Salesbury was urging other Welsh people to use that information technology to revitalize the language.
4 days ago · St Fagans has been a trailblazer in the world of open-air folk museums since its establishment in 1948. The brainchild of Dr. Iorwerth Peate, a Welsh poet and historian, the museum was born out of a desire to preserve the rapidly disappearing traditional ways of life in Wales. As one of the first museums of its kind in the UK, St Fagans set the ...
5 days ago · The area now known as Wales has been inhabited by modern humans for at least 29,000 years, though continuous human habitation dates from the period after the last Ice age. Wales has many remains from the Neolithic period (mainly chambered tombs), as well as from the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The written history of Wales begins with the arrival ...
1 day ago · In May 1429, for example, the captain of Falaise, Thomas Gower, commanded a garrison which included a high proportion of Welsh names, while some years later Gruffydd Dwnn, captain of Tancarville, had charge of a large garrison, more than half of whose members bore Welsh names.
1 day ago · The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani ( / ˈroʊməni / ROH-mə-nee or / ˈrɒməni / ROM-ə-nee) and colloquially known as the Roma ( sg.: Rom ), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin [71] [72] [73] who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian ...
2 days ago · The Gauls (Latin: Galli; Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD). Their homeland was known as Gaul (Gallia). They spoke Gaulish, a continental Celtic language.
