Languages Of The United Kingdom Including Welsh, Cornish, Languages In Scotland, And British Sign Language
by Patrick Sing
2021-01-02 00:47:29
Languages Of The United Kingdom Including Welsh, Cornish, Languages In Scotland, And British Sign Language
by Patrick Sing
2021-01-02 00:47:29
The United Kingdom does not have a constitutionally defined official language. English is the main language, being spoken monolingually by more than 95% of the UK population, and is thus the de facto official language. The Welsh language is officiall...
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The United Kingdom does not have a constitutionally defined official language. English is the main language, being spoken monolingually by more than 95% of the UK population, and is thus the de facto official language. The Welsh language is officially protected by the Welsh Language Act of 1993 and the Government of Wales Act of 1998. According to the 2001 census Scottish Gaelic has 58,652 speakers (roughly 1% of the population of Scotland). In total 92,400 people aged three and over in Scotland had some Gaelic language ability in 2001. Cornish, a Celtic language related to Welsh, is spoken by roughly 3,500 people as a result of a revival initiated by Henry Jenner in 1903. British Sign Language, often abbreviated to BSL, is the language of 125,000 deaf adults, about 0.3% of the total population of the United Kingdom. This book studies British languages including Middle Welsh, Welsh syntax, Scottish Gaelic, Scots language, Unified Cornish, and Modern Cornish. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.
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