LL-L "Language varieties" 2006.03.13 (16) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 13 March 2006 * Volume 16
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2006.03.13 (02) [E]


  From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha
  Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2006.03.12 (04) [E]

  Welsh speakers migrated to the Chubut Valley in Patagonia in the 1860s for
  the same reason, but soon became bilingual in Castillian with the
  consequence that whilst Welsh is still used in the area, its domains are
  limited and its maintenance is vestigial rather than popular.

  Go raibh maith agat

  Críostóir.
When I lived in South Africa in the 70's the Rand Daily Mail (now extinct) 
had an article on Argentinian Afrikaners.  A community went there after the 
First Boer War, not wanting to live under British rule (which seems a bit 
odd, as the British virtually ruled that country to all extents economical! 
ly, if not politically).  Anyway, apparently they still spoke a version that 
sounded rather quaint and old-fashioned to South Africans.  I can't recall 
how many there were, and thus the likelihood of the community still existing 
30+ years later.

Paul 

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