When someone from England says to me "why are you studying Cornish? It's a 'dead' language", I can reply that if they consider themselves to be a Briton then in fact I'm learning and helping to ...

For centuries Cornwall retained the marks of a separate country - the Cornish people having their own language, style of dress and folklore. Yet by 1700 there were only 5000 Cornish speakers left in ...

Q WHY is Welsh classed as a Celtic language when it is about as akin to Gaelic as chalk is to cheese? - A Jones, Bridlington. A GAELIC and Welsh are noticeably different because they belong to two ...

The evidence suggests that by the first century AD, the language spoken in Wales - and throughout southern Britain - was Brythonic, a Celtic language closely related to the Gaulish of Gaul. Other ...

Who was King Arthur and how Welsh was he? These are two of the questions up for debate at a new exhibition at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. From ancient Brythonic warlord to mythical ...