Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: History of the Welsh language, Welsh placenames, List of Welsh language authors, S4C, Welsh orthography, Welsh English, List of Welsh-language media, Eisteddfod, Welsh exonyms, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, Welsh numerals, Llan, Tynged yr Iaith, List of English words of Welsh origin, William Salesbury, Welsh Bible, Middle Welsh, List of Celtic choirs, Y Fro Gymraeg, Old Welsh, Treachery of the Blue Books, Welsh medium education, S4C Sport, Welsh Language Board, Nant Gwrtheyrn, Cymuned, Zeitschrift f r celtische Philologie, Menter Iaith, Welsh Not, Welsh-Romani language, Welsh Language Act 1993, Welsh Language Act 1967, Maes-e, List of Welsh principal areas by percentage Welsh language, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Mistar Urdd, Tafod y Ddraig, Paul-Yves Pezron, Wlpan, Association of Welsh Translators and Interpreters, Sylfaen, Golwg, Mudiad Adfer, Cymdeithas y Dysgwyr, Hiraeth, Catchphrase. Excerpt: Welsh ( or, pronounced ) is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it was also called Cambrian or Cambric. The Welsh Language Board indicated in 2004 that 611,000 people (21.7% of the population of Wales in households or communal establishments) were able to speak Welsh. This figure marks a 0.9 percentage point increase when compared with a figure of 20.8% from the 2001 census, and an increase of approximately 35,000 in absolute numbers within Wales. Welsh is therefore a growing language within Wales. Of those 611,000 Welsh speakers, 57% (315,000) considered themselves fluent, and 78% (477,000) consider themselves fluent or "fair" speakers. 62% of speakers (340,000) claimed to speak the language daily, including 88% of fluent speakers. A greeting in We...