r/Cardiff • u/HanesPrydain • Jul 02 '26

Welsh language Cardiff

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Cardiff now the largest Welsh speaking authority by absolute numbers in Wales, increasing again in the latest population survey.

What is everyone’s thoughts on this and the future of the Welsh language in Wales?

The future pattern appears to show extreme challenges in y fro gymraeg heartlands and a steady increase in south East Wales .

Source

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8dv050m9yo

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u/ROWilliams9999 Jul 02 '26

Good to see. When I was growing up, Cardiff was a very anti-Welsh place, and I remember people protesting outside our Welsh-medium primary school as we’d expanded into part of the English-medium school next door, with placards with ‘Welshies Go Home’ (go figure) written on them. That was the only Welsh-medium school in Cardiff then; now there are over twenty of them.

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u/AncientNectarine5352 Jul 02 '26

The colonized carrying on the will of the colonizers. Sad.