[Foundation-l] A simple question on languages.

[geni]

On 29/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/01/2008, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To some extent. However, long-term maintenance of bilingualism at all
> > levels of a society is rare, and in those situations where it can be
> > found, one language can still be said to be "dying", for example Welsh
> > and English.
>
>
> I'd certainly disagree in the case of Welsh. The official promotion of
> it in schools means a generation of Welsh kids is growing up speaking
> it as well as they do English.

And yet despite the amounts spent most well default to English. Remove
the props and welsh would have only very limited use within a couple
of decades.
-- 
geni