Is Welsh spoken more in South America than Irish/Scottish gaelic is in North America?

3 Comments

1. Alu_it says:

   November 20, 2009 at 10:49 pm

   I dont know how people spoken irish/scottish in north america, but I thing no so much.when welsh settlers went to the united states they felt was lost, by the facility that they had with the english.for that reason they thought about going to a place where it was not the English language in near zones, and went to patagonia.
   here, in chubut I thing around 30000 welsh spoken, maybe more. sorry for my english, ok?we cannot be saved of the english hahaha
2. Jock says:

   November 20, 2009 at 10:49 pm

   Honest answer Cymro? I don’t know. What I can tell you is that there are more Scottish Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton now than there are in Scotland itself. There are probably pockets of people in far flung places like New Zealand that still speak the Gaelic as well.
3. Lorne says:

   January 24, 2011 at 2:51 pm

   There used to be many Scots (and some Irish) Gaelic speakers in Canada, to the extent that it was proposed in Parliament (Ottawa, not London) to make it the third official language. But that was a long time ago. There are probably around 500 Scots Gaelic speakers left in Nova Scotia, and there is a small Gaelic community in southern Ontario. So Jock would be right, if this was 1911 instead of 2011.

   While Chubut is not exactly overrun with Welsh speakers, they number in the handful of thousands and so outnumber Gaelic speakers in Canada. I have no idea about the USA, but sincerely doubt that the great melting pot has many Gaelic or Welsh speakers.