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I learned from another article that in 1865 a group of Welch people moved to
Argentina, hoping to preserve their language. Reading about this movement, it
is not hard to understand why Ukrainians would wish to preserve their language
and why Russians speakers in the Ukraine are so attached to their language.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/9169222/The-Welsh-Argentine-who-fought-the-British.html
The new colony was the idea of Michael Jones, a Nonconformist minister and
ardent Welsh nationalist from Bala, who believed that the best way to preserve
his people’s culture was to isolate it, establishing a community as far away as
possible from the baleful influence of Victorian England.
“These people felt oppressed,” says Señor Rhys. “They were not allowed to know
their own language. Many of those who came later were miners who had suffered
in terrible conditions. They did not know how to farm, and the land here was
hard, but they were free
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