The minority language of the UK

Welsh is one of the minority languages which is spoken in Wales.
When you visit Weals in the southwest of England, you will look other language.These are Welsh. This is VSO type language. It precudes to verbs in subjects.
Wales was once under the imperial control of the Roman Empire and Anglo-Saxon. And there was stepping annexation of England. In 1282, Prince of Wales who is the last king of Welsh was killed, finally the annexation law was promulgated in 1536. After that, people who can not speak English can't take the public works. And English got social prestige. The language that people speak for a lot of English speakers to migrate from England to the industrial zone in the southern part in the background of people's positive posture to English-language acquisition after middle the 19th century shifts to English.
On the other hand, the chapel tryed to keeping Welsh but people who speak Welsh daily is about harf and it decreases steadily. The people who speak Welsh were under 20% in 1980 but the number of children who can speak Welsh was increasing in 1970s. Now a lot of children go to Welsh school and the bilingual in English and Welsh school.

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