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Just find a normal map of Wales/Scotland and draw a couple of dots. 
That should cover the rights areas.
That should cover the rights areas.
Posted: 16:18 Dec 03 2002
Help, looking for stealable maps gaelic and Welsh
Just wondered if anyone knew any websites showing good (though now I am desperate and after any maps of Scots and Irish Gaelic Speaking areas (Including the Gaeltacht) and Welsh speaking areas (ie maps of wales with shading for the areas where the language is spoken)
I hate my course, having to give presentations with images
This will probably just become a dead thread but I am really really desperate (did I just say that
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I hate my course, having to give presentations with images
This will probably just become a dead thread but I am really really desperate (did I just say that
)
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Posted: 16:18 Dec 03 2002
Wow! This is a tricky one. I found a linguistic map of Brittany, but not Wales/Scotland/Ireland. I want a new internet!
Dunno if this (mapless) site is of any use...
www.britishcouncil.org/multilingualuk/who.htm
Dunno if this (mapless) site is of any use...
www.britishcouncil.org/multilingualuk/who.htm
Posted: 17:03 Dec 03 2002 
Well, all of Wales speaks Welsh. It's more common up North than down South, but it is spoken all over.
Posted: 23:24 Dec 03 2002 
This is where I get lasered for being a linguistics geek... 
I can, unfortunately, only think of maps that I've seen in books - There's "The Welsh Language and its Social Domains" (UWP 2001)
Also "English In Wales", ed. Nikolas Coupland, Alan R. Thomas (Multilingual Matters 52, 1990)
And "Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales" - Bud B. Khleif (Contributions to the Sociology of Language 28, 1980)
There are pockets on the Border which don't speak it at all. And there are very, very few monoglot Welsh speakers anymore - everyone is bilingual (from necessity, mainly). All schoolchildren in Wales are required to learn Welsh until 16 - how many of them take it in is a moot point, though.
Sorry I couldn't help out on the Gealtacht etc. And sorry some of these were books, not useful web-type-maps...
I can, unfortunately, only think of maps that I've seen in books - There's "The Welsh Language and its Social Domains" (UWP 2001)
Also "English In Wales", ed. Nikolas Coupland, Alan R. Thomas (Multilingual Matters 52, 1990)
And "Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales" - Bud B. Khleif (Contributions to the Sociology of Language 28, 1980)
Acknowledged. Though the split is more East/West (with the exception of Pembrokeshire) than North/South...
by PictureOfFlowers
Well, all of Wales speaks Welsh. It's more common up North than down South, but it is spoken all over.
There are pockets on the Border which don't speak it at all. And there are very, very few monoglot Welsh speakers anymore - everyone is bilingual (from necessity, mainly). All schoolchildren in Wales are required to learn Welsh until 16 - how many of them take it in is a moot point, though.Sorry I couldn't help out on the Gealtacht etc. And sorry some of these were books, not useful web-type-maps...
Posted: 23:46 Dec 03 2002 My family all live in Wrexham, and none of them or any of their friends speak Welsh. Never heard it spoken at all in the area.
by Bee
everyone is bilingual (from necessity, mainly).
I was taught Welsh in LLangollan (sp?) and I forgot it all (except 'Shut your mouth') as soon I left as no one else used it in everyday life.
by Bee
All schoolchildren in Wales are required to learn Welsh until 16 - how many of them take it in is a moot point, though.
Posted: 08:10 Dec 04 2002 Eek. Sorry, my lack of precision has been caught out - of course, I meant everyone who speaks Welsh is of necessity bilingual, i.e. not monoglot Welsh - everyone who can speak Welsh can speak English too. Thank you for the correction - it was late when I posted...
by Vinnie
My family all live in Wrexham, and none of them or any of their friends speak Welsh. Never heard it spoken at all in the area.
Posted: 22:26 Dec 04 2002