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Re:A Loss for Words: Can a Dying Language Be Saved? by reitanqild on Saturday March 28, 2015 @01:26PM (#9282087)
Side note: A couple of years ago I found myself working with a Welsh engineer who told me he learned English first as a teenager. Still almost can't believe it but he was very serious about it.
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Re:A Loss for Words: Can a Dying Language Be Saved? by redacted on Saturday March 28, 2015 @01:44PM (#9282149)
In Ireland, we have the Gaeltacht [1], which are areas where Irish is the primary language. I know a couple of older people who grew up in a Gaeltacht and only learned English in school, never using it at home. This would be much less likely nowadays, hard to avoid English on the Internet etc

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeltacht

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Re:A Loss for Words: Can a Dying Language Be Saved? by panglott on Monday March 30, 2015 @11:27AM (#9290129)
Welsh is less geographically concentrated, but is more spoken in the west and north. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language#/media/File:Wel...
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