Conway Mill Trust

Reply to Rabie on comment Dec 2012 blog comment.   Thanks for your comment.  I was not aware of a ‘universal language’ and can see where it would come in handy.  However, language is the key to national identity.  Irish is one of the surviving dialects of the ancient Celtic tongue and dates back to about 800 B.C.  It was carried to Ireland and Briton where it evolved into Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Manx.  In Ireland, the English established ‘The Penal Laws’ which made it a crime to teach or speak the Irish tongue.  It was kept alive by courage and ingenuity by hedgerow schoolteachers and it survived and continues to do so.  Use Esperanto but I hope you do not abandon your native Welsh.