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The Welsh language, a Celtic language (related to Breton, Cornish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx) has a similar post-enlightenment history to many other of the other regional or minority languages all over Europe, i.e. centrist policies and a sharp demographic decline beginning at the start of the twentieth century, followed by a slowing in that decline in the 1970s.
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Evas, J. (2014). The Welsh Language in the European Information Society. In: Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) The Welsh Language in the Digital Age. White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45372-4_8
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