{"id":73253,"date":"2026-08-06T19:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/73253\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:18:40","slug":"the-threats-facing-the-welsh-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/73253\/","title":{"rendered":"The threats facing the Welsh language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The threats facing the Welsh language\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aw1-d6WAJYQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe threats facing the Welsh language<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe resilience of the Welsh language is often hailed as a major success story.<\/p>\n<p>But according to ITV News analysis of census data, neighbourhoods where the majority speak Welsh are nearly 40 percent down since the turn of the century.<\/p>\n<p>And campaigners say this threatens the long-term future of the language.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The threats facing the Welsh language The resilience of the Welsh language is often hailed as a major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[236,4652,29064,15464,1864,16980,1905,28119,380,17235,379,13744,40645,26325,60530,360,1906,356,60529],"class_list":["post-73253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-cardiff","tag-celtic","tag-census","tag-children","tag-cymru","tag-education","tag-figures","tag-itv","tag-itv-evening-news","tag-itv-news","tag-itvx","tag-language","tag-learning","tag-north-pembrokeshire","tag-plaid-cymru","tag-schools","tag-welsh","tag-welsh-speaker"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}