[Stewart]

Fing is, the Welsh teach their children Welsh because of national pride. English is clearly of more use, but if da kidz don't speak Welsh they can't teach their kidz, and within a few generations it would be extinct.

Thing is, a language where some people born in that country can't speak it is always going to be in this situation. Have you ever met a French person who can't speak fluent French? A German that can't speak German?

Plenty of people in Wales can't speak Welsh.

So its not a 'proper' language, in the sense that a proper language just is. You are born, you speak it, everyone you know speaks it. Welsh has to be protected and nurtured. It needs help to avoid going extinct.

All very strange.

I suppose Cerdic thought the Welsh were strange when he turned up in the 6th century, and found them only using a bit of the land in the West, leaving the area that comprises modern day England empty.

He settled it, peacefully I might add, and for centuries we English have had to live in fear of constant attacks and invasion from the savage, warlike Welsh. Somehow we clung on, probably because they were too busy building the First Millennium Stadium or worshipping their strange Gods at Charlotte church.

So now they speak Welsh as a way of saying **** you to the English, basically.