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Does knowing about the country you live in really have so little value? Maybe it's not the only valuable thing in the world, but knowing about the culture of th

Does knowing about the country you live in really have so little value? Maybe it's not the only valuable thing in the world, but knowing about the culture of the society you live in sure seems like it would be valuable...? Welsh has been largely abandoned in Cardiff and southern Wales, but there are large sections of the country where at least a quarter of the population speaks Welsh, and in other places 65-80% of people speak Welsh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language#/media/File:Welsh_speakers_in_the_2011_census.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language#/media/File:Wel...

pbhjpbhj 12y ago
>Does knowing about the country you live in really have so little value? // Does communication have so little value that you'd choose an anachronistic minority language that a small proportion of the native population understand - and an even smaller proportion prefer in daily communication - in favour of a modern, widely used, language? History has its place but there is very little of use to the majority that is gained by using minority languages - recently I was looking at an artistic Kufic Arabic script and at other times have studied (briefly) historic languages to understand other peoples, but there's no need to learn Cymraeg to understand Welsh people when you are one speaking the language of your people modern Welsh (aka English, that is seemingly dismissed for its name).