Language Resource Assessment Welsh ICL – UNI HEIDELBERG – HS LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGES – KATHARINA ALLGAIER – 18.04.2016
Cymraeg Celtic language can be traced back to 600 AD was spoken widely all over GB Spoken in Wales (ca. 600.000), England (100.000 – 150.000), Argentina (Chubut province in Patagonia, 5.000-25.000) Ca. 750 000 speakers worldwide only 20% of Welsh population 50% at the beginning of the 20th century 28% report to have some knowledge of it about 1.5 million can ‚ understand ‘ it worldwide Official provincial language in Wales UNESCO vitality: vulnerable
Number of people who have one or Language Grouping Number of native speakers more skills in the language Around 947,700 (2011) total speakers — Wales: 788,000 (26.7% of Welsh 562,000 (19.0% of the population population) Welsh - Cymraeg Brittonic of Wales) self-certify that they — England: 150,000 "can speak Welsh" (2011) — Chubut Province, Argentina: 5,000 — United States: 2,500 — Canada: 2,200 40,000 – 80,000 In the Republic of 1,887,437 Irish - Gaeilge Ireland Republic of Ireland: 1,774,437 Goidelic 94,000 people use Irish daily United Kingdom: 95,000 outside the education system United States: 18,000 Breton - Brezhoneg Brittonic 206,000 356,000, mainly in Brittany(France) Scottish Gaelic - 57,375 (2011) in Scotland as well Goidelic 87,056 (2011) in Scotland Gàidhlig as 1,275 (2011) in Nova Scotia 3,000 , mainly in Cornwall Cornish - Kernewek Brittonic 600 100+, including a small number of 1,823 , mainly on the Isle of Man Manx - Gaelg Goidelic children who are new native speakers
Revitalisation Welsh Language Act of 1993 : “in the course of public business and the administration of justice, so far as is reasonably practicable, the Welsh and English languages are to be treated on the basis of equality .” Welsh obligatory in schools as first or second language Encourage learners +increase possibilities of every day use National Eisteddfod Promotion of the language everything in Wales is bilingual Welsh TV and radio station, newspaper, magazines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyvJORl0Wqk
Corpora and Tools OLAC various spoken + written documentations http://www.language-archives.org/language/cym http://search.language-archives.org/search.html?q=welsh Speech Corpora Lexicons Grammars Y Beibl yn Gymraeg (Welsh Bible) - https://archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_cym_gen-1#page/n1/mode/2up Corpus of Historical Welsh Patagonia Corpus Donnelly, Kevin and Margaret Deuchar . “Using constraint grammar in the Bangor Autoglosser to disambiguate multilingual spoken text”. Bangor University.
Sources http://www.ethnologue.com/language/cym http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltische_Sprachen http://www.omniglot.com/writing/welsh.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages http://gov.wales/newsroom/welshlanguage/2015/151126-welsh- language-survey/?lang=en http://gov.wales/topics/welshlanguage/?lang=en
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