1335: Welsh in Patagonia Aug 7, 2018

The best ways to preserve a language spoken by a population are to have relative isolation and institutions to support it. This is how Welsh is still spoken in a Patagonia, where the community has resided for 150 years. In the towns of Trelew and Trevelin there are three schools taught at least partly in Welsh, which gives the community a boost in terms of making sure that the language won't simply die out, and will have some more practical uses. While it is true that just about all of that community also speaks Spanish, the relative separation that that region provides from larger areas also makes the language less likely to be abandoned by that one community, unlike what may happen in a larger city.
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