Statistical Evidence Relating to the Welsh Language 1801-1911/Tystiolaeth Ystadegol yn ymwneud a'r laith Gymraeg 1801-1911

RR 99/255 Statistical Evidence Relating to the Welsh Language 1801-1911/Tystiolaeth Ystadegol yn ymwneud a'r laith Gymraeg 1801-1911 Dot Jones University of Wales Press Cardiff/Gwasg PrIfysgol Cymru, Caerdydd 1998 xiv + 519 pp. ISBN 0 7083 1460 0 L19.99

A Social History of the Welsh Language series/Hanes Cymdelthasol yr laith Gymraeg

Keywords Language, Statistics, Wales

Ever since the Tudor Act of Union of 1536 penalised the Welsh people for speaking their own language, Welsh has been assailed by countless zealots, within and without, who wished it dead. Social and economic forces were generally also inimical. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the people of Wales were still overwhelmingly Welsh-speaking. By 1911, only 10 per cent of the population described themselves as speaking "Welsh only". Continued decline ever since may now be coming to...