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Patagonian Welsh
Cymraeg y Wladfa
Native to
Argentina
Region
Chubut
Native speakers
unknown
Language family
Indo-European
Celtic
Insular Celtic
Brittonic
Western Brittonic
Welsh
Patagonian Welsh
Writing system
Latin (Welsh alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
pata1258
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Headquarters of the Asociación San David. Welsh: Cymdeithas Dewi Sant.Abierto y Ar agor in the headquarters of the Eisteddfod in the Chubut valley.Trilingual signal in Gaiman.
Patagonian Welsh (Welsh: Cymraeg y Wladfa) is a variety of the Welsh language spoken in Y Wladfa, the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Chubut Province, Argentina. The decimal numeral system used in Modern Welsh originated in Patagonia in the 1870s, and was subsequently adopted in Wales in the 1940s as a simpler counterpart to the traditional vigesimal system, which still survives in Wales.
Teachers are sent to teach the language and to train local tutors in the Welsh language, and there is some prestige in knowing the language, even among those not of Welsh descent. Welsh education and projects are mainly funded by the Welsh Government, British Council, Cardiff University and the Welsh–Argentine Association. In 2005 there were 62 Welsh classes in the area and Welsh was taught as a subject in two primary schools and two colleges in the region of Gaiman. There is also a bilingual Welsh–Spanish language school called Ysgol yr Hendre situated in Trelew and a college located in Esquel. In 2016 there were three bilingual Welsh–Spanish primary schools in Patagonia.
Patagonian Welsh has developed to be a distinct dialect of Welsh, different from the several dialects used in Wales itself; however, the dialects have a high degree of mutual intelligibility, and speakers from Wales and Patagonia are able to communicate readily. Numerous toponyms throughout the Chubut Valley are of Welsh origin.
A total of 1,220 people undertook Welsh courses in Patagonia in 2015.
The formal Eisteddfod poetry competitions have been revived, although they are now bilingual in Welsh and Spanish.
PatagonianWelsh (Welsh: Cymraeg y Wladfa) is a variety of the Welsh language spoken in Y Wladfa, the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Chubut Province,...
Trelew, and Trevelin. There are 70,000 Welsh-Patagonians. However, Chubut estimates the number of PatagonianWelsh speakers to be about 1,500, while other...
that Welsh was a language (other than English) that they used at home. It is believed that there are as many as 5,000 speakers of PatagonianWelsh. In...
to the origin of the Welsh pronunciation of the word "chupat" which later became "Chubut". It is called "Camwy" in PatagonianWelsh. Chupat, Chubut and...
poetry in the English language.[citation needed] PatagonianWelsh (Cymraeg y Wladfa) is a dialect of the Welsh language which is spoken in Y Wladfa in the...
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The Patagonian Sheepdog or Spanish: Ovejero Magallánico is a Chilean breed of sheepdog. It was bred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
Welsh settlements from the mid-19th century. In some of these areas PatagonianWelsh is still in daily use, together with Argentine Spanish. Outside of...
Aires Province. In the early 21st century, around 50,000 Patagonians are of Welsh descent. The Welsh-Argentine community is centered around Gaiman, Trelew...
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Patagonia. Chubut estimates the number of PatagonianWelsh speakers to be about 1,500. Both the English and Welsh languages have official, but not always...
accompanied Welsh settlers to Patagonia and the Patagonian Sheepdog is in part a descendant from this breed. National Purebred Dog Day The Old Welsh Grey –...
province considered a Gaelic language to be their "mother tongue". PatagonianWelsh is spoken principally in Y Wladfa in the Chubut Province of Patagonia...
Buenos Aires Province. Welsh is also spoken by over 35,000 people in the Chubut Province. This includes a dialect called PatagonianWelsh, which has developed...
War, Welsh-speaking British merchant seamen and British soldiers from the Welsh Guards were shocked to find themselves addressed in PatagonianWelsh by...
was an influx of about 1,000 PatagonianWelsh, who migrated to Canada from Argentina after the 1982 Falklands War. Welsh-Argentines are fluent in Spanish...
real relic of this practice today is the Patagonian placename Trevelin ("mill town"), which in standard Welsh orthography would be Trefelin. In 1928, a...
The Patagonian Bones is a 2015 Argentine film written and directed by Ricardo Preve. With a telefilm format, The Patagonian Bones is based on the true-life...
community outside the British Isles. The language is spoken in the PatagonianWelsh dialect. Another minority language that arrived with European migration...
scientist (313 votes) Michael D. Jones, (1822–1898) founder of the WelshPatagonian community (284 votes) Dafydd ap Gwilym, (c.1315/1320–c.1350/1370) poet...
Y Cymro (Welsh pronunciation: [ə ˈkəmrɔ], 'The Welshman') is a Welsh-language newspaper, which was first published in 1932. It was founded in Wrexham...
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[citation needed] There are three Welsh–Spanish bilingual schools in Chubut Province serving the Patagonian-Welsh community. There are a small number...
(Spanish pronunciation: [tɾeˈβelin]; Welsh: Trefelin [tɾɛˈvɛlɪn]) is a town in the western part of the Patagonian Argentine province of Chubut. The town...
footed') or the Patagonians may have reminded the explorers of the giant Pathoagón from the knighthood novel Primaleón. The Patagonians' large craniometry...
20 January – Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of PatagonianWelsh colony (born 1821) 19 March – Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon 29...
son-in-law, Juan Falabella. He added additional bloodlines, including the Welsh Pony, Shetland pony, and small Thoroughbreds. With considerable inbreeding...
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