Welsh Surnames & the Welsh Language

Описание: Is Jones a Welsh surname? Is there a 'J' in the Welsh alphabet? A nuanced take on Welsh surnames and the Welsh language rooted in actual historical sources which you can look at below!

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This video was created by Dai Davies of GenealCymru without the use of generative AI.

Check out my sources:
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru/The Welsh Dictionary
https://www.welsh-dictionary.ac.uk/

Coupland, N., et al. 2006. Imagining Wales and the Welsh language.
Parry, G., & Williams, M. A. 1999. The Welsh Language and the 1891 Census.
Rowlands, John, & Shiela Rowlands. 1996. The Surnames of Wales.

Ball, Martin John. 1988. The Use of Welsh, on Google Books.
Cushman, Stephen, et al. 2012. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Welsh Poetry, on Google Books.
Jones, Mari C. 1998. Language Obsolescence and Revitalization, on Google Books.
Pryce, Huw. 2022. Writing Welsh History, on Google Books.
Pryse, Robert John. 1859. Orgraph yr iaith Gymraeg, on Google Books.
Thomas, Peter Wynn. 1996. Gramadeg y Gymraeg, on the Internet Archive.

Morris-Jones, J. 1913. A Welsh Grammar.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:...

Images:

A special thanks to the following institutions for their dedication to digitizing historical records. The Public Domain images used in this video are over 100 years old or 70 years has passed since the passing of their creator:

ArtUK
National Library of Wales
National Library of Wales on Flickr
Internet Archive
New York Public Library
Yale Center for British Art
Wellcome Collection
Digital Commonwealth
Boston Public Library
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Artvee
Library of Congress

Other Image Rights
William Salesbury 2017 cc-by-sa 4.0 Llywelyn2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...