<div dir="ltr">Thanks for this link, Dave! I found a publication of the official ONS stats on Welsh in the 2011 census that this article is quoting:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://wales.gov.uk/docs/statistics/2012/121211sb1182012en.pdf">http://wales.gov.uk/docs/statistics/2012/121211sb1182012en.pdf</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Merry Christmas,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Paul Johnson</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>PhD Candidate</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
Department of Political Science, UC Davis</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Dave Sayers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:D.Sayers@swansea.ac.uk" target="_blank">D.Sayers@swansea.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.clickonwales.org/2012/12/lessons-of-language-loss-stay-the-same/" target="_blank">http://www.clickonwales.org/2012/12/lessons-of-language-loss-stay-the-same/</a><br>
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"The census information on the state of the Welsh language, published yesterday and shown in the<br>
table below, give the bare outline details. More information will be available at the end of January<br>
in which we will be able to se what is happening at more local community level across Wales.<br>
<br>
We will be running some articles by specialist commentators next week but it is possible, on an<br>
initial glance to come to a few conclusions. First of all, the overall decline is far from<br>
catastrophic – mush less, for example, than occurred between 1961 and 1971 when the overall<br>
statistics fell by 26 per cent to 19.8 per cent."<br>
<br>
(More if you click the link.)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.clickonwales.org/2012/12/lessons-of-language-loss-stay-the-same/" target="_blank">http://www.clickonwales.org/2012/12/lessons-of-language-loss-stay-the-same/</a><br>
<br>
The comments beneath the article are just as interesting as the article itself, if not more so. In<br>
general the comments on <a href="http://clickonwales.org" target="_blank">clickonwales.org</a> articles are a slightly more formal and informed version of<br>
the much more vitriolic comments that fly around in the Welsh blogosphere on this topic.<br>
<br>
Note: I am not the 'Dave' in these comments, or the 'David', or any of the other likely pseudonyms.<br>
I'm just a bystander.<br>
<br>
Happy Christmas folks :)<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
--<br>
Dr. Dave Sayers<br>
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University<br>
and Visiting Lecturer (2012-2013), Dept English, Åbo Akademi University<br>
<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a><br>
<a href="http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers" target="_blank">http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers</a><br>
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