{"id":5139,"date":"2026-08-09T18:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2026-08-09T18:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:18:43","slug":"welsh-facing-crisis-as-language-dwindles-in-communities-across-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5139","title":{"rendered":"Welsh facing &#8216;crisis&#8217; as language dwindles in communities across Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/welsh-facing-crisis-language-dwindles-125017115.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Welsh facing &#039;crisis&#039; as language dwindles in communities across Wales\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/27a9906ad3c477fa7a89e7dbee8f88c5d1ff237e57c8f184fcf3fb111356b9d0\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_jpg\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fitv_news_193%2Fe9ab7a91acd2b28ede932dad257e4106\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">uk.news.yahoo.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Welsh facing &#8216;crisis&#8217; as language dwindles in communities across Wales<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">ITV News analysis found that in 2001 there were 229 neighbourhoods where more than half of residents spoke Welsh. By 2021, that had fallen by 38% to 141.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}