BBC Wales sports presenter Catrin Heledd.
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The BBC is celebrating 100 years of broadcasting in Wales.
The Welsh name Yr Wyddfa is now used for the mountain instead of Snowdon by the national park authority.
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Welsh place names often reflect local legends, fauna and topography. The coining of English names to replace them has sparked an ongoing campaign to protect them.
The children of Cwm Gwaun go door to door singing and collecting calennig in 1961.
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Britain may have ditched the Roman calendar in 1752 but Cwm Gwaun continues to cling on to its old traditions.
Richard Price reading a letter dated 1784 from his friend, Benjamin Franklin.
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He was an important philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of his time. But Richard Price was subsequently written out of history.
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There are many benefits to being bilingual.
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School is a key location for young people to learn and speak Welsh.
The Wales football team sings Yma o Hyd with Dafydd Iwan (far right) to Welsh fans after their qualification for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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Speakers of minority languages (like Welsh) often insert words from a majority language (like English) while speaking.
Prince William has been given the title of Prince of Wales.
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The title was last held by a Welshman in the 1400s.
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What could the British public lose when the BBC licence is pulled?
Gaelic is traditionally spoken in Scotland across the Highlands and the Hebridean islands, such as Skye.
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Gaelic speakers need opportunities to use their language in a wide variety of social and everyday settings to avoid its presence being eroded.
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The benefits of a bilingual education are huge.
Poetry in Latin, Welsh and Gaelic from Edward Lhwyd’s Archaeologia Britannica.
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Welshman Edward Lhwyd helped bring togethr Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish and Breton to show how language could connect people on a deeper level.
Being bilingual can delay onset of dementia, but sometimes patients revert to their mother tongue, leaving them isolated.
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Why the lives of bilingual dementia patients can be transformed by finding carers who speak their native language.
Under the new curriculum, Welsh will be used in every single lesson, not just language lessons.
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Wales’s schools mostly teach in English at present but its new curriculum will make Welsh language part of every lesson in all schools.
Brandon Stark’s story extends far beyond the world of Westeros.
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The original origins of some key characters names might give hints to their fates in Game of Thrones.
Mainstream schools aren’t always suitable for children with autism.
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Parents of autistic children in Wales face a choice between English-medium specialist education or Welsh-medium mainstream education.
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Cwtch, drive and brammer are all commonly thought of as Welsh dialect terms, but they have actually come from all over the world.
Cyanite landscape.
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Future Sounds: Listening to Lynette Roberts, the forgotten Welsh poet.
Ydych chi'n siarad Cymraeg?
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There’s no reason why AI systems can’t speak any language – but is there a reason why it should?
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Probably the most famous ‘Welsh’ word, ‘cwtch’ is the perfect example of a dialect term.