Maps showing Welsh-speaking areas

I came across this link in Another Place, which I thought was interesting:

http://www.iaith.eu/uploads/plethu_ein_dyfodol_trafodion_2007.pdf

Fluent readers may care to read it, but of more interest to us lesser mortals are the maps showing where Welsh is spoken, and also showing percentage of people born in Wales, etc. Obviously it is 7 years old now, so there may well be more up to date maps available somewhere.

EDIT: Another link here (with clearer maps) from the same thread:

http://www.iaith.eu/uploads/cyflwyniad_meri_huws.pdf

Might as well give a link to the whole thread (which is from 2008, so bear that in mind):

http://www.forumwales.com/fwforum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7030

I may be wrong, but I have a nasty feeling that the latest figures, i.e. since I came into exile, showed a big drop. I was very shocked when I saw something about it on TV recently, because with more schools teaching in Cymraeg, I had expected the number of speakers to rise.
Jackie
p.s. I hate using the words Wales & Welsh which just meant ‘foreign’ in Saxon or Anglish or both!! As they were invading Britain and we were the natives, calling us foreign seemed… shall we say… oh, I have no words in any language!!

To try to be positive, SSiW, and those of us who support it, are trying to do something to redress the balance.

p.s. I hate using the words Wales & Welsh which just meant ‘foreign’ in Saxon or Anglish or both!! As they were invading Britain and we were the natives, calling us foreign seemed… shall we say… oh, I have no words in any language!!

Well yes, but I think a lot of languages and dialects have words with origins like this. My middle name, and my father’s first name, is Wallace, probably named after William Wallace the “Scottish” folk hero, but according to Wikipedia, his surname (not that people had surnames in those days in the way we have) came from a word meaning “Welsh-speaking”, i.e. he probably spoke a Celtic language (maybe Cumbric?), probably close to the Welsh of his day. So I for one am not going to argue with the words “Welsh” and “Wales”. :slight_smile:

People can get a little worked up about aggregate figures. I recall reading an article on one of those clickbaity news websites stirring the pot over the fall by a percentage or two in the total proportion of speakers. The maps in the second link, giving the distribution over the nation by age, vindicate the Assembly’s policies on schools. Newer numbers: https://statswales.wales.gov.uk/v/hjb. I’m sure somebody will get around to putting them on a map. Without meaning to be morbid, you won’t see a major resurgence in the statistics until the young replace the old.