wyrm wrote:JohnRoth wrote:Other languages on the endangered list include two of the remaining Celtic languages: Irish and Scots-Irish. Welsh has never been endangered, and Cornish seems to be reviving after a near-death experience.
Welsh was considered (by the Welsh) to be endangered in the first half of the 19th century. They were sufficiently concerned that they established a Welsh-speaking colony in a remote part of Patagonia in the hope that this would preserve the language (They had observed that Welsh-speaking communities in the US had succumbed to the pressure to use English).
Perversely, the Welsh language had a revival in Wales, while the Patagonian community now primarily uses Spanish.
*lol*
The irony of reality.