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Article: Devolution and language governance in Wales.(Language Lessons)
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- Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
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- January 1, 2004
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WITH THE WELSH LANGUAGE ACT 1993, WELSH WAS GIVEN OFFICIAL status in Wales. This status was further strengthened with the Government of Wales Act 1998, which confirmed that the language is an integral part of Welsh identity. With devolution and the establishment in 1999 of the National Assembly for Wales, a new framework for promotion of the language has come into existence. Welsh has passed from being a cultural to a public language enjoying official support. But its success as a public language is in no way guaranteed. Fortunately, the Assembly is committed to an ambitious program of revitalization, unprecedented in the history of Celtic languages in the United Kingdom.
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