A Linguistic Map of Wales
1961
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4613347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emrys Jones (0000-0003-1715-8368), Ieuan Ll Griffiths |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Publication date | 1963-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1792639 |
| OpenAlex | W2326742190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
The first detailed report of the 1961 Census issued by the General Register Office i on he Welsh-speaking populatio of Wal s (H.M.S.O., 1961). The accompanying map has been based on this report and shows the percentage of persons over three years of age able to speak Welsh. This map (Fig. 1) can be compared with that drawn by J. Gareth Thomas based on the 1951 Census and published in the Geographical Journal in 1956 (Thomas, 1956). Before the distribution is dealt with there are several aspects concerning Welsh speaking which should be borne in mind. The first is that the Census deals with Welsh speaking in Wales only. It would be very difficult to even guess at the number of people who are able to speak Welsh and who live in England, more particularly in the London region and in the Midland conurbations and Liverpool. In 1951 there were 262,000 people living in the English conurbations alone who had been born in Wales, but even to gauge approximately the proportion who retained their ability to speak Welsh one would have to apply such factors as: what percentage of these came from Welsh-speaking Wales, their ages when they left Wales, the chances of ability in Welsh surviving in England. That Welsh is very much alive in England is shown by the number of Welsh churches and societies, and that Welsh television programmes are now channelled through Crystal Palace to the London region. Ninety years ago a conservative estimate was made that 62,000 persons in England could speak Welsh, compared with about 900,000 in Wales (Ravenstein, 1879). The figure today may still be in the tens of thousands. This, however, is speculation. Statistics are confined to Wales
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 1991 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |