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Proposed Welsh Language
Proposed Welsh Language LCO Written Submission on behalf of ‘Mudiadau Dathlu’r Gymraeg – Celebrating Our Language’ an umbarella group of 17 national organisations co-working to promote the need for further legislation for the Welsh Language. The evidence provided by ‘Mudiadau Dathlu’r Gymraeg - Celebrating Our Language’ is hereby presented to the Committee for Welsh Affairs in Westminster. We attempt to address all 8 questions posed by the Committee in the following submission, and we would welcome an opportunity to expand on the points made in this paper at any meeting convened in future. ‘Celebrating Our Language’ agree with the principle that legislation on any matters linked to the Welsh language should take place at the National Assembly for Wales. To this end, ‘Celebrating Our Language’ believe that no aspects of Welsh language legislation should remain in the hands of the Westminster Parliament if they can be moved. It is within the spirit and scope of the devolution settlement and the Government of Wales Act (2006) that this transfer of competence is realised. We believe that the LCO needs to be future-proof, allowing the Welsh Assembly Government the capacity of legislating to reflect future desires and aspirations of a fair and bilingual Wales. We feel it is important to progress beyond the argument regarding the need to legislate on the Welsh language in the Assembly, and concentrate our efforts on ensuring that the Legislative Competence Order encompasses as much as possible, so that we do not have to repeat this prolonged process when producing a series of measures for the Welsh language in future. -
Cyfnodolyn Academaidd Cymraeg Golygydd: Yr Athro Ioan Williams
Cyfnodolyn Academaidd Cymraeg Golygydd: Yr Athro Ioan Williams Rhif14 Ebrill 2013 • ISSN 1741-4261 • Golygydd: Yr Athro Ioan Williams Cyhoeddwyd gyda chymorth: Gwerddon Gwerddon CYFNODOLYN ACADEMAIDD CYMRAEG Golygydd Yr Athro Ioan Williams Gwerddon Rhif 14 EbrillGwerdd 2013on • Rhif ISSN 14 Ebrill1741-4261 2013 2 Gwerddon Bwrdd Golygyddol Golygydd: Yr Athro Ioan M. Williams Is-Olygydd: Dr Hywel Griffiths, Prifysgol Aberystwyth Cynorthwyydd Golygyddol: Dr Gwenllian Lansdown Davies Cadeirydd y Bwrdd Golygyddol: Dr Hefin Jones, Prifysgol Caerdydd Aelodau’r Bwrdd Golygyddol: Dr John S. Davies Dr Noel A. Davies Dr Myfanwy Davies, Prifysgol Bangor Yr Athro Siwan Davies, Prifysgol Abertawe Dr Arwyn Jones, Prifysgol Caerdydd Dr Carwyn Jones, Prifysgol Fetropolitan Caerdydd Yr Athro Rhys Jones, Prifysgol Aberystwyth Dr Gwyn Lewis, Prifysgol Bangor Yr Athro Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost, Prifysgol Caerdydd Dr Angharad Price, Prifysgol Bangor Dr Eleri Pryse, Prifysgol Aberystwyth Dr Siân Wyn Siencyn, Prifysgol Cymru: Y Drindod Dewi Sant Dr Enlli Thomas, Prifysgol Bangor Mr Wyn Thomas, Prifysgol Bangor Dr Daniel Williams, Prifysgol Abertawe e-Gyfnodolyn academaidd cyfrwng Cymraeg yw Gwerddon, sy’n cyhoeddi ymchwil ysgolheigaidd yn y Gwyddorau, y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau. Cyhoeddir Gwerddon ar y we o leiaf ddwywaith y flwyddyn. Arfernir cyfraniadau gan arbenigwyr yn y meysydd perthnasol yn y modd arferol. Ceir gwybodaeth lawn am amcanion, polisïau golygyddol, canllawiau i awduron Gwerddon a chanllawiau i arfarnwyr ar y wefan: www.gwerddon.org Cyllidir Gwerddon gan y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Cysylltwch â Gwerddon drwy e-bostio [email protected] neu drwy’r post: Gwerddon, Canolfan Gwasanaethau’r Gymraeg, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Yr Hen Goleg, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 2AX. -
The Role and Importance of the Welsh Language in Wales's Cultural Independence Within the United Kingdom
The role and importance of the Welsh language in Wales’s cultural independence within the United Kingdom Sylvain Scaglia To cite this version: Sylvain Scaglia. The role and importance of the Welsh language in Wales’s cultural independence within the United Kingdom. Linguistics. 2012. dumas-00719099 HAL Id: dumas-00719099 https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-00719099 Submitted on 19 Jul 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. UNIVERSITE DU SUD TOULON-VAR FACULTE DES LETTRES ET SCIENCES HUMAINES MASTER RECHERCHE : CIVILISATIONS CONTEMPORAINES ET COMPAREES ANNÉE 2011-2012, 1ère SESSION The role and importance of the Welsh language in Wales’s cultural independence within the United Kingdom Sylvain SCAGLIA Under the direction of Professor Gilles Leydier Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................. 1 WALES: NOT AN INDEPENDENT STATE, BUT AN INDEPENDENT NATION ........................................................ -
468 Medi 2018 Pris:70C
• www.ecorwyddfa.co.uk • Dilynwch ni ar facebook www.ecorwyddfa.co.uk Rhif: 468 Medi 2018 Pris:70c Ddydd Mercher 11 Gorffennaf, cafodd ugain o deuluoedd alwad ffôn nad oedd “dim pwynt” iddynt fynegi eu pryderon iddo. Serch hynny, gan ferch o`r swyddfa yng Nghartref Nyrsio Penisarwaun, yn rhoi dywed yr adroddiad fod y staff yn dangos “urddas a pharch” tuag at gwybod iddynt fod y cartref ar fin ymddatod neu ddiddymu ei hun, y preswylwyr. a bod gan y teuluoedd lai nag wythnos i ddod o hyd i gartref nyrsio Mae`r pryderon a fynegir yn adroddiadau Awst 2016; Awst 2017 a arall i`w hanwyliaid. Ar ddydd Gwener, 13 Gorffennaf, derbyniodd y Mawrth 2018 yn dwysau, ond mae`r adroddiad a gyhoeddwyd ar 27 teuluoedd lythyr gan gyfarwyddwr `Penisarwaun Care Home Ltd` - Mehefin 2018 yn un damniol. Yn eironig, rhyddhawyd yr adroddiad Mr Mubarik Barkat Paul – yn dweud – hwn yn ystod y cyfnod y cyhoeddwyd fod y cartref yn cau. Hefyd, “We regret to inform you that Penisarwaun Care Home Ltd is to cyn cyhoeddi`r adroddiad, penderfynodd Mr Paul beidio â bod yn be liquidated and closed. The liquidator has given notice to the `unigolyn cyfrifol` i`r cartref, ac ymddiswyddodd Mrs Paul fel un o`r authorities to vacate the home in seven days from yesterday. Please cyfarwyddwyr ar 5 Mehefin. Yr hyn sy`n drist yw fod y staff wedi cael contact your social worker for further information”. eu rhoi ar ddeall oddeutu fis cyn y cyhoeddiad am gau – nad oedd Agorwyd y cartref yn swyddogol gan y Cynghorydd Pat Larsen bwriad i gau`r cartref. -
House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee
House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee S4C Written evidence - web List of written evidence 1 URDD 3 2 Hugh Evans 5 3 Ron Jones 6 4 Dr Simon Brooks 14 5 The Writers Guild of Great Britain 18 6 Mabon ap Gwynfor 23 7 Welsh Language Board 28 8 Ofcom 34 9 Professor Thomas P O’Malley, Aberystwth University 60 10 Tinopolis 64 11 Institute of Welsh Affairs 69 12 NUJ Parliamentary Group 76 13 Plaim Cymru 77 14 Welsh Language Society 85 15 NUJ and Bectu 94 16 DCMS 98 17 PACT 103 18 TAC 113 19 BBC 126 20 Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture 132 21 Mr S.G. Jones 138 22 Alun Ffred Jones AM, Welsh Assembly Government 139 23 Celebrating Our Language 144 24 Peter Edwards and Huw Walters 146 2 Written evidence submitted by Urdd Gobaith Cymru In the opinion of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Wales’ largest children and young people’s organisation with 50,000 members under the age of 25: • The provision of good-quality Welsh language programmes is fundamental to establishing a linguistic context for those who speak Welsh and who wish to learn it. • It is vital that this is funded to the necessary level. • A good partnership already exists between S4C and the Urdd, but the Urdd would be happy to co-operate and work with S4C to identify further opportunities for collaboration to offer opportunities for children and young people, thus developing new audiences. • We believe that decisions about the development of S4C should be made in Wales. -
The Social Identity of Wales in Question: an Analysis of Culture, Language, and Identity in Cardiff, Bangor, and Aberystwyth
Linfield University DigitalCommons@Linfield Fulbright Grantee Projects Office of Competitive Scholarships 8-3-2012 The Social Identity of Wales in Question: An Analysis of Culture, Language, and Identity in Cardiff, Bangor, and Aberystwyth Clara Martinez Linfield College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/fulbright Part of the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, and the International and Intercultural Communication Commons Recommended Citation Martinez, Clara, "The Social Identity of Wales in Question: An Analysis of Culture, Language, and Identity in Cardiff, Bangor, and Aberystwyth" (2012). Fulbright Grantee Projects. Article. Submission 4. https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/fulbright/4 This Article is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It is brought to you for free via open access, courtesy of DigitalCommons@Linfield, with permission from the rights-holder(s). Your use of this Article must comply with the Terms of Use for material posted in DigitalCommons@Linfield, or with other stated terms (such as a Creative Commons license) indicated in the record and/or on the work itself. For more information, or if you have questions about permitted uses, please contact [email protected]. Fulbright Summer Institute: Wales 2012 The Social Identity of Wales in Question: An Analysis of Culture, Language, and Identity in Cardiff, Bangor, and Aberystwyth Clara Martinez Reflective Journal Portfolio Fulbright Wales Summer Institute Professors August 3, 2012 Table of Contents Introduction -
Old and Middle Welsh David Willis ([email protected]) Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
Old and Middle Welsh David Willis ([email protected]) Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge 1 INTRODUCTION The Welsh language emerged from the increasing dialect differentiation of the ancestral Brythonic language (also known as British or Brittonic) in the wake of the withdrawal of the Roman administration from Britain and the subsequent migration of Germanic speakers to Britain from the fifth century. Conventionally, Welsh is treated as a separate language from the mid sixth century. By this time, Brythonic speakers, who once occupied the whole of Britain apart from the north of Scotland, had been driven out of most of what is now England. Some Brythonic-speakers had migrated to Brittany from the late fifth century. Others had been pushed westwards and northwards into Wales, western and southwestern England, Cumbria and other parts of northern England and southern Scotland. With the defeat of the Romano-British forces at Dyrham in 577, the Britons in Wales were cut off by land from those in the west and southwest of England. Linguistically more important, final unstressed syllables were lost (apocope) in all varieties of Brythonic at about this time, a change intimately connected to the loss of morphological case. These changes are traditionally seen as having had such a drastic effect on the structure of the language as to mark a watershed in the development of Brythonic. From this period on, linguists refer to the Brythonic varieties spoken in Wales as Welsh; those in the west and southwest of England as Cornish; and those in Brittany as Breton. A fourth Brythonic language, Cumbric, emerged in the north of England, but died out, without leaving written records, in perhaps the eleventh century. -
Exploring Welsh Speakers' Language Use in Their Daily Lives
Exploring Welsh speakers’ language use in their daily lives Beaufort contacts: Fiona McAllister / Adam Blunt [email protected] [email protected] Bangor University contact: Dr Cynog Prys [email protected] Client contacts: Carys Evans [email protected], Eilir Jones [email protected] Iwan Evans [email protected] July 2013 BBQ01260 CONTENTS 1. Executive summary ...................................................................................... 4 2. The situation, research objectives and research method ......................... 7 2.1 The situation ................................................................................................ 7 2.2 Research aims ......................................................................................... 9 2.3 Research method ..................................................................................... 9 2.4 Comparisons with research undertaken in 2005 and verbatim comments used in the report ............................................ 10 3. Main findings .............................................................................................. 11 4. An overview of Welsh speakers’ current behaviour and attitudes ........ 21 4.1 Levels of fluency in Welsh ...................................................................... 21 4.2 Media consumption and participation in online and general activities in Welsh and English .................................................. 22 4.3 Usage of Welsh in different settings ...................................................... -
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c Through CASE STUDY CNNA VIA GW LUNTOWN VO THE CAMPAIGN FOR BI-LINGUAL SIGNS IN WALES 64 DATES. DURATION and LOCALE a. 1964 b. nine years to date (late 1973) c. Locale -- various places throughout Wales, London OBJECTIVES a. Immediate — To secure the erection of bi-lingual public b. signs throughout Wales* Long range -- To ensure "...the right of emery Welshman to use "Welsh—in all spheres of life.. (C.I. G. document 99 quoted in the booklet Symbols of Justice p. 6) I. CAMPAIGN PARTICIPANTS: LEADERSHIP AND ALLIES a. Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (The Welsh Language Society, hereafter C.I.G), an organisation started in 1962, mainly by students, response to a call by Saunders Lewis for nonviolent direct action to block the forces contributing to the decline of the Welsh language. Behind C.I.G. are strong traditions of Christian pacifism and nonviolent action by Welsh nationalists. (Saunders Lewis is a nationalist, one of the founders of Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), and nonviolent activist—one of a group of three who burned down an RAP bombing school in Wales in the mid 1930's after all constitutional means of blocking its being built had failed.) b. Leadership for the campaign came from C.I.G. Prominent figures were Dafydd Iwan and Ffred Ffransis. Many ad hoc groups participated. Groups of professionals, parents, writers, ministers, and even magistrates gave support in various ways --when the chairman of C.I.G. (Dafydd Iwan) was in gaol for refusing to pay a fine, a group of magistrates paid the fine and secured his release. -
PROTESTANTISM the WELSH WAY. the RELIGIOUS DIMENSION of WELSH NATIONAL and CULTURAL IDENTITY in the NINETEENTH CENTURY This
PRZEGLĄD ZACHODNI II, 2017 MARTYNA JONES Poznań PROTESTANTISM THE WELSH WAY. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF WELSH NATIONAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY This paper analyses Welsh religious identity in the nineteenth century, especially with regard to national identity. The issues discussed include the influence of religion on Welsh patriotism, culture, language, approach to education, politics, Welsh peo- ples’ perception of their own history, and attitudes to England. Religious identity was an important aspect of Welsh identity in the nineteenth century. The subject is not familiar to Poles, and is thus not discussed in Polish schol- arly literature. The present article is based on source materials and secondary litera- ture written in Welsh and English. The sources discussed include transcripts of pro- ceedings of the British Parliament, government reports, press reports and the fictional literature of the era. The original source materials are mainly held at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth and the library and archives of Bangor University. The history of Christianity in today’s Principality of Wales1 dates back to Roman times. These lands, conquered by Emperor Claudius in the first century AD, remained under Roman rule until the beginning of the fifth century. In the meantime, Emperor Constantine the Great legalised Christianity in the Empire, and Theodosius the Great made it a dominant religion, which may suggest that it was present in Wales already in the fourth century.2 The Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity only in the sixth century, of which fact Welsh campaigners used to remind their English opponents, especially in the context of religious debates. -
Welsh Language Use in the Community
Social research number 52/2015 WELSH LANGUAGE USE IN THE COMMUNITY Research Study WELSH LANGUAGE USE IN THE COMMUNITY A research study undertaken as part of the Evaluation of the Welsh Ministers' Welsh Language Strategy: A living language: a language for living Rhian Hodges, Cynog Prys, Alison Orrell, Sioned Williams and Einir Williams Language Planning Group, Bangor University in conjunction with Hywel M. Jones, Statiaith and Arad. The views expressed in this report are those of the researcher and not necessarily those of the Welsh Government. For further information, please contact: Dr Catrin Redknap Principal Research Officer (Welsh Language) Knowledge and Analytical Services Welsh Government Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3NQ Tel: 029 2082 5720 Email: [email protected] Welsh Government Social Research, 7 October 2015 ISBN: 978-1-4734-4844-5 © Crown Copyright 2015 All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 unless otherwise stated. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Table of contents List of figures .............................................................................................................. 3 List of tables ............................................................................................................... 4 Glossary ..................................................................................................................... 5 1. Introduction ................................................................................................... -
An Unnatural Disaster Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into Homelessness and Poor Housing Conditions in Wales
An unnatural disaster Report of the Commission of Inquiry into homelessness and poor housing conditions in Wales “Homelessness and housing need are not natural disasters; decisions of policy and resources are responsible for them. With political will we can change this situation – we can make Wales a country free of poverty and homelessness.” 1 Swansea Inquiry Day An unnatural disaster: Report of the Commission of Inquiry into homelessness and poor housing conditions in Wales. © Shelter Cymru June 2007 Shelter Cymru, 25 Walter Road, Swansea SA1 5NN Phone: 01792 469400 Fax: 01792 460050 Email: [email protected] Web: www.sheltercymru.org.uk Registered charity number: 515902 2 Contents Key recommendations 4. Affordable housing 1. Introduction 4.1 Why it is important 2. A national priority 4.2 The housing market and home ownership 3. Homelessness 4.3 The issue of supply 3.1 What is homelessness? 4.4 The Private Rented sector 3.2 How many people are 4.5 What is needed? homeless? 4.6 Affordable homes and investment 3.3 Leading on homelessness 4.7 Land and affordable housing 3.4 Local responses 5. A new approach 3.5 Services and practices 6. Conclusion 3.6 Intentional homelessness 3.7 How the money is spent Appendices 3.8 Resourcing the response i The Panel of Commissioners ii Inquiry locations and evidence iii Definitions of homelessness 3 Key that could see the disappearance of growth in social rented housing is local homelessness strategies. needed, but also new low cost home recommendations ownership initiatives. An important A new approach part of the new provision should be A new priority for people’s homes flats and bed sits, in sustainably- It is essential that a citizen- designed neighbourhoods, to There is an urgent need to centred approach to delivering respond to changing demographics address the serious shortage public services is developed and in particular the needs of young of affordable homes in Wales.