. The earth and its inhabitants ... ribution of the Welsh-speaking Population of Wales. Persons Districts in which Welsh is spoken bya majority ..... Districts in which it ia spoken by 25to 50 per cent. .... Districts in which it is spoken by lessthan 25 per cent, of the in-habitants .... Total Population. Persons speaking Per Cent. speaking English, or AVelsh and English. Per Cent. 6,050 1,025,573 887,870 86-5 81-7 357 113,030 38,016 33-7 96-8 1,501 174,080 8,614 4-9 100 0 7,908 l,:i 12,583 934,530 71-2 85-5 (E. G. Ravenstein, Journal Statistical Society, 1879.) WALES. 57
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ribution of the Welsh-speaking Population of Wales. Persons Districts in which Welsh is spoken bya majority ..... Districts in which it ia spoken by 25to 50 per cent. .... Districts in which it is spoken by lessthan 25 per cent, of the in-habitants .... Total Population. Persons speaking Per Cent. speaking English, or AVelsh and English. Per Cent. 6,050 1,025,573 887,870 86-5 81-7 357 113,030 38,016 33-7 96-8 1,501 174,080 8,614 4-9 100 0 7,908 l,:i 12,583 934,530 71-2 85-5 (E. G. Ravenstein, Journal Statistical Society, 1879.) WALES. 57 New World, and even in Australia, Wherever Welsh emigrants settle down innumbers, the Cymracij is spoken side by side with Sassenach, or Saxon. AtLiverpool there are some twenty chapels in which the services are conducted inWelsh, and a journal is published in Cymraeg.* The Welsh in the United Statescocasionally meet in order to sing and declaim in the language of the ancient Fig. 28.—Linguistic Map of E. G. Proportion of Celtic-speaking Inhabitants. mm 25 to 50 50 to 90 Over 90 bards; and the indomitable colonists who, notwithstanding the difficulties theyencountered, founded a New Wales in Patagonia, retain the use of theirmother tongue, and the Rio Chuput, on the banks of which they established theirsettlement, has been renamed by them Afon Llwyd, or Grey Eiver. Through-out the world Welsh is spoken by far above 1,000,000 human beings. Nevertheless the Celtic spoken by the Cymry of Wales would appear to be doomed * Throughout England there are about 110 chapels in which the services are conducted in 68 TÎIE BRITISH ISLES. to extinction, and a time must come when it will survive only among use it from patriotic motives, others employ it to gratify their craving afterliterary honours. All men of education learn to think in English, and even atthe eisteddfodau the language of the conquering Saxon struggles for
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