The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those
who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain.
However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language
of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales may be
intrigued by the existence of Welsh and will want to find out how a
language which has, for at least fifteen hundred years, been the
closest neighbour of English, enjoys such vibrancy, bearing in mind
that English has obliterated languages thousands of miles from the
coasts of England. This book offers a broad historical survey of
Welsh-language culture from sixth-century heroic poetry to
television and pop culture in the early twenty-first century. The
public status of the language is considered and the role of Welsh
is compared with the roles of other of the non-state languages of
Europe. This new edition of The Welsh Language offers a full
assessment of the implications of the linguistic statistics
produced by the 2011 Census. The volume contains maps and plans
showing the demographic and geographic spread of Welsh over the
ages, charts examining the links between words in Welsh and those
in other Indo-European languages, and illustrations of key
publications and figures in the history of the language. It
concludes with brief guides to the pronunciation, the dialects and
the grammar of Welsh.
General
| Imprint: |
University Of Wales Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
March 2014 |
| First published: |
2014 |
| Authors: |
Janet Davies
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
192 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78316-019-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-78316-019-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781783160198 |
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