A community council has said it will only back plans for a new housing estate if it is reserved for Welsh speakers.

The councillors rejected the housing development twice in their attempts to preserve the language. However, the 18-home estate was approved on appeal in December 2025 as the Welsh Government’s ...

All over the world, people are increasingly looking for more effective language education. In the US, for example, there are now more than 800 dual language programmes aiming to produce bilingual ...

An Englishman has awoken from a stroke with the ability to speak fluent Welsh. Alun Morgan began to speak Welsh and could not remember any English when he became conscious after three weeks. The ...

Mystery as fluent Welsh-speaking man lost language after horror car crash - Ellis Peares’ car flipped over three times when ...

In 1865, 153 Welsh settlers sailed more than 7,100 miles to the middle of Argentina’s desert to protect their language and ...

Welsh is the oldest living language in Great Britain — a branch of ancient Celtic that has survived its English neighbour’s ...

Peredur Webb-Davies works for Bangor University and has received research grant funding in the past from the ESRC and Research Council UK. The Welsh language, Cymraeg, has changed linguistically a lot ...

A women's football team have claimed they were mocked by the opposition during a match for speaking Welsh, and told to "speak English". The Felinheli team have complained to the Football Association ...

This post is the first in a special Global Voices series on Welsh language and digital media in collaboration with Hacio'r Iaith. Blogging, like the Welsh language, is considered by some to be in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ellis Peares began studying at Aberystwyth University in autumn 2024 - shortly before his life-changing car accident (PA) Ellis ...