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The total number of people who know some Welsh (even if it's only a few words) is about 70-75%. About 20% of Welsh people (one fifth) use Welsh as their first language in preference to English. There are a tiny handful of people (most of them now very old) living in remote parts of rural Wales who can ONLY speak Welsh, or whose English is very poor.

There are also several hundred thousands of Welsh expatriots living around the world who have some knowledge of Welsh, a sizeable number of which speak it fluently. In addition, several thousand Patagonian Argentinians can speak the language, due to the region having been colonised by Welsh emigrants in the 19th Century.

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