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'Languages do not die natural deaths', as Daniel Corkery, the distinguished Irish scholar has observed, 'they are murdered, and their murderers are those who would destroy t.he soul of the nation'. The truth of this observation becomes plain if we glance at those communities troubled by a 'Language Problem'. Language problems are in fact a disease, of which imperialism is the carrier, and they trouble communities which are, or until relatively recently were, subject to the political domination of an imperialist state. This is certainly true of the Welsh language, whose survival is in question for the second time in five centuries. In the nineteenth century, over 90% of the population of Wales was Welsh speaking, many of them monoglot; by the recent Census the number had dropped to under 30%,1 while the monoglot speakers had all but disappeared. It is true that the rate of decrease has slowed down, so we seem to be reaching a turn of the tide, but the danger is so great that Welsh patriots are rousing them- selves to a determined effort to save the language and to recover lost ground. ; N/A

Edited by J. Gwenogvryn Evans. ; Parliament. Papers by command, C. 8829, 9468, 2443, 1100, 1692, 2444, 5353. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The effect of language oppression is still relatively unexplored in social work and probation text books. In this article, Doris Adlam, probation officer in a groupwork team in the North Wales Probation Service, and Elisabeth Lynn, Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Wales, Bangor, explore how it can be used as an instrument of oppression, and argue that a genuinely bilingual service is a crucial prerequisite to effective practice with Welsh speaking probation clients.

This paper discusses the vitality of the Welsh language. English is one major causation for the reduction of Welshspeakers in Wales over the past two centuries. Welsh phonetic mutation, which is a cross-linguistic irregularity,has become undesirable, and is thus becoming a linguistic feature of the past. Metatypy between English and Welsh has begun to influence the morphosyntactic and phonemic features of Welsh. In an effort to revitalize Welsh, the Welsh government implemented a new language policy and plan (LPP) titled "Cymraeg 2050." A proposed differential equation model could be used to forecast the success of Cymraeg 2050 by assuming different social-status values for English and Welsh. Finally, the nine factors developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the four factors of the Language Endangerment Index (LEI) are calculated to determine that Welsh is classified somewhere between vulnerable and endangered.