Comment by jhbadger
5 hours ago
And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)
5 hours ago
And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)
> And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population
98% of the UK population can speak English, so I'm not sure where you got that idea. Clearly every part (maybe some small, uncelebrated village breaks the rule) of the UK has a language spoken by virtually the entire population of that region.
> (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)
If you are struggling to say that England is the only country in the UK that sees most of its population still speak the language of its ancestral roots, then I suppose that's true, but when English is the most commonly used natural language across the entire world I'm not sure that is much of a feat.
What does any of this have to do with the discussion at hand?
Are you joking? They meant Wales, 27.7% of the population of Wales speak Welsh (and yes most of them English too).