14-Feb-2012 - Language 'losing 3,000 per year'

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14 February 2012 Last updated at 06:43 GMT Report says Welsh language 'losing 3,000 people a year' The number of fluent Welsh NFL jerseys speakers is falling by around 3,000 people a year, a new report suggests. The Welsh Language Board (WLB) said deaths and people moving from Wales are having the biggest impact. The report says that around 6,500 Welsh speakers die annually and 5,200 move away, out-pacing adult learners and children learning or raised in Welsh. It found the number of people who say they speak Welsh fluently is approximately 300,000. The WLB is being wound up by the Welsh government following the appointment of Wales' first Welsh language commissioner. Its report, which uses the 2001 Census and other public data as well as its own research, is one of its most comprehensive in recent times. New legislation passed by the assembly last year requires the new commissioner to publish a similar report cheap nfl jerseys every five years. The WLB report assesses changes in the number of people speaking Welsh, as well as geographical and generational differences. It found four areas - Anglesey, Gwynedd, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire - remain important for the language, Reebok NFL jerseys accounting for 56% of all fluent Welsh speakers. It concludes that the number of people able to speak Welsh rose between 1991 and 2001, mainly because more young people were learning the language at school. Further analysis of Welsh speaking is expected to come from the 2011 Census released later this year.

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