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GUEST,Allan Connochie BS: Bilingual Signs etc (33) RE: BS: Bilingual Signs etc 21 Mar 10


"As for I mean,there are probably more people in the UK that can speak Farsi,or Pushtu,or Tagalog,or Hebrew,than can speak Welsh,"

From official census figures there are over half a million Welsh speakers which must dwarf the combined speakers of Farsi, Pushtu, Tagalog, and Hebrew all put together. So there is no probably about it! People seem to be just plucking statistics out of thin air. According to Wiki (I know but there aren't to many sources for these stats) there are almost as many Punjabi speakers as Welsh speakers in the UK. Punjabi is the most common immigrant language. Hence if that were true that would make Welsh (with the possible exception of Scots - and I say possible because there are no real stats as to how many Scots speakers there are) the second most spoken language in the UK after English. Which is all by the by as we are talking about Wales where it is easily the second language and where it is a traditional language. The debate over signs is a valid debate but surely there is no case for making up statistics on the hoof and trying to use that as a justification for a point of view.


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