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PostPosted: Thu 14 Aug 2014 5:16 pm 
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I think there is still a "pocket" of Welsh speakers somewhere in Argentina, which has lasted for quite a while, but the last article I saw about them somewhere indicated that they were also starting to lose touch with the language.

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PostPosted: Thu 14 Aug 2014 5:35 pm 
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CaoimhínSF wrote:
I think there is still a "pocket" of Welsh speakers somewhere in Argentina, which has lasted for quite a while, but the last article I saw about them somewhere indicated that they were also starting to lose touch with the language.


Yes, in Patagonia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Wladfa


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PostPosted: Thu 14 Aug 2014 7:55 pm 
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Interesting article, a Bhríd. Looks as though there are still some 5,000 Welsh speakers in Argentina. I also read the main Wikipedia article about Welsh, and learned that the British Army used Welsh speakers in their Balkan operations, much as the US used Navajo "code talkers" in World War II, but the British did not do that during the Falklands war, for fear that some of those Welsh Argentinians might be able to understand the communications.

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PostPosted: Sun 17 Aug 2014 10:46 am 
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I'd bad skeptical of them having Welsh but then again those of irish decent have perfect accents tho they've been generations speaking English at home

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PostPosted: Sun 17 Aug 2014 5:49 pm 
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Jay Bee wrote:
I'd bad skeptical of them having Welsh but then again those of irish decent have perfect accents tho they've been generations speaking English at home

I've been to Patagonia, they do speak Welsh, although extremely fast, much faster than Welsh from Wales and they have a sort of Spanish cadence. There are a few Mapuche words in their Welsh. They told me that they consider Welsh from Wales to be correct and their own to be substandard. Rather than losing Welsh, they are standardising their Welsh to match Wales.

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