20 Facts About Welsh people

Welsh people remains the predominant language in many parts of Wales, particularly in North Wales and parts of West Wales, though English is the predominant language in South Wales.

The Welsh language is taught in schools throughout Wales, and, even in regions of Wales in which Welsh people predominantly speak English on a daily basis, the Welsh language is often spoken at home among family or in other informal settings, with Welsh speakers often engaging in code-switching and translanguaging.

The Welsh people language has been spoken in the region which is Wales since well before the Roman incursions into Britain.

In 2016, an analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.

The surviving poem Y Gododdin is in early Welsh people and refers to the British kingdom of Gododdin with a capital at Din Eidyn and extending from the area of Stirling to the Tyne.

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Research suggests the Welsh people are genetically distinct from the rest of mainland Britain.

Professor Peter Donnelly, of the University of Oxford, states that said the Welsh carry DNA which could be the most ancient in UK and that people from Wales are genetically relatively distinct, they look different genetically from much of the rest of mainland Britain, and actually people in north Wales look relatively distinct from people in South Wales.

The highest percentage of those identifying as of Welsh people ethnicity was recorded in Gwynedd, followed by Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and the Isle of Anglesey.

Some Welsh people are affiliated with either Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam or Sikhism.

Welsh people language is in the Insular Celtic family; historically spoken throughout Wales, with its predecessor Common Brittonic once spoken throughout most of the island of Great Britain.

Welsh people remains the predominant language in parts of Wales, particularly in North Wales and parts of West Wales.

However, a large number of Welsh people speakers are more comfortable expressing themselves in Welsh people than in English.

For many young people in Wales, the acquisition of Welsh is a gateway to better careers, according to research from the Welsh Language Board and Careers Wales.

The Welsh people Government identified media as one of six areas likely to experience greater demand for Welsh people speakers: the sector is Wales's third-largest revenue earner.

In 2018 Welsh people was used in the grand committee for the first time.

However, Cardiff is home to an urban Welsh people-speaking population due to the centralisation and concentration of national resources and organisations in the capital.

Some, speaking Welsh people is an important part of their Welsh people identity.

Patagonian Welsh people is a dialect of the Welsh people language which is spoken in Y Wladfa in the Argentine region, Patagonia.

Welsh people settlers moved to other parts of Europe, concentrated in certain areas.

Internationally Welsh people have emigrated, in relatively small numbers, to many countries, including the USA, Canada and Y Wladfa in Patagonia, Argentina.