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In the first decades of the 1700s, Edward Lhwyd a brilliant Welsh linguist (who was also a botanist, geologist and antiquarian) came to understand the connections between the surviving Celtic languages: Gaelic (both Irish and Scottish), Welsh, Breton and Cornish.

The website “StAustellVoice” reports that the leaders of Mebyon Kernow (the Cornish Nationalist party in Cornwall), and Cornwall Council marked St Piran’s Day by calling on the government to give the Cornish people what other UK national minorities have been afforded – a tick-box in the 2021 census.

The British government is being accused of discriminating against a recognized UK minority and of suffering a “significant blind spot” when it comes to Cornwall as it is challenged to do more to support the county’s distinct ‘national’ identity

From Nation Cymru:

We hear a lot about why Welsh should move aside and allow English to take over. But why should it? The Welsh language is vastly superior to English, as we will now demonstrate! And, in fact, we think the English would be much better off cognitively, financially and intellectually if they cast off the yoke of their own dismal tongue and embraced the ancient Celtic language of Britain.

1.) English doesn’t have enough vowels

News From The Welsh Language Society (Cymdeithas yr Iaith):

" A group of protestors occupied Cardiff Council offices today in a campaign for a Welsh-medium schools at the Plasdŵr development in the capital.The council leader had said in 2018 that a Welsh-medium school would be part of the new seven thousand home development in the north-west of the city.However, the council’s cabinet subsequently decided to consult on a proposal to establish a new bilingual primary school which would mean half the pupils going to an English-medium stream.

The Scottish Government is to provide £2 million of capital support towards a fourth Gaelic primary school in Glasgow to meet growing demand, Deputy First Minister John Swinney recently announced.

From The Celtic Language News:

Minister for Education and Skills, Joe McHugh, this week announced plans for the development of the first comprehensive Irish-medium education policy with an ambitious target of doubling the number of young people in Irish medium schools to 120,000.

"Gaelic is vital to Scotland's future and a forum launched yesterday heard that the Scottish Government will ensure that those who want to learn and speak the language are given the support they need.

The official website of the EU has chronicled the march of the Irish Language towards full status within the European Union:

" Irish has been an EU language since 2005 with a limited status, meaning that only a small share of documents were translated into Irish. In December 2015, at the request of the Irish government, the Council decided to increase the material available in Irish to progressively reach full status for the Irish language in the EU by 2022."