twitch of twitch.cymru

I think my first webring is ready to launch!! This post is pretty much a copy-and-paste of the webring page on my site.

The Modern Celtic Languages Webring aims to:

• Promote the active use of Celtic languages online.
• Connect Celtic language speakers across the web.
• Resist the globalisation of English/Anglo-American culture and English-language hegemony, which replace and erase our own cultures and languages.
• Assert our existence as minoritised peoples, whose cultures and languages are still here and alive.
• Show the world that an "inclusive society" doesn't mean we should all be made to speak English in order to make the English monolinguals feel included - we should instead be proud of our cultures, and show the world that differences are good and should be celebrated across the world and online. Differences do not divide us. The world and the internet should not be a homogenised, English-speaking culture.

Requirements to join:

• Websites only. There isn't a way to embed the webring widget on social media like Twitter, Facebook, etc.
• You must use at least one of the six modern Celtic languages somewhere on your site, i.e. Cymraeg, Gaeilge, Gàidhlig, Brezhoneg, Gaelg, and/or Kernewek (note that any orthography for Kernewek is fine). You do not have to be a fluent speaker, just someone who is willing to use the Celtic languages on the web. Your entire site does not need to be in a Celtic language, but ideally your Celtic language content should be obvious and easy to access from your homepage.
• Your site does not have to be focused on just Celtic-related things. The content of your site can be pretty much anything: from Celtic language resources, to personal blogging, film reviews, and whatever else it is that you do. 18+ websites are allowed, as long as your homepage has a clear warning that you have adult content on your site. Sites containing hatespeech and bigotry will not be allowed.

How to join:

1. Embed the following code into your homepage, or somewhere else easily accessible on your website like a links page. The webring won't work if the widget is hard to find.

2. Fill in the form below and reply to this post with it! (Or e-mail it to me at twitchcoded@gmail.com)

• Your name/nickname:
• Site name:
• Site address:
• Site description:
• Link to site button:
• Celtic language(s) your site is written in:

gonna start citing bulbapedia next time i have an essay to do for university

it does amaze me somewhat just how unfamiliar english people seem to be with the minority languages of britain and ireland. english people love to talk about how our languages looks unpronounceable and impenetrable or whatever, and in some cases aren't even aware of some minority languages' existence (usually seems to be the romance languags of the channel islands, angloromani, and scots they're the most unaware of. or at least scots is just assumed to be some sort of funny, uneducated dialect of english). which feels just bizarre and insulting, how are you so unaware of us and our languages and cultures, when we're your neighbours and when we live amongst you in england? you've spent hundreds of years trying to eradicate us, and now you can't even acknowledge our existence, and make jokes about your ignorance, and don't even care to learn our languages when we all have to speak yours? when i meet people from outside these islands and i talk about celtic studies and the other non-celtic languages here, they always seem really interested and ask me questions and think it's so cool how english isn't the only language/culture around here, despite the fact that that's what they've assumed. but english people just do not seem to care as much, despite the fact that they've been our neighbours for hundreds of years. it's hard to feel a sense of comradery as a "united kingdom" or even as a wider "british isles" when english people behave like that about us.

https://mega.nz/folder/tvNTXBoT#NAaTkDOPwV5oftLyfSSiPA
i've been meaning to share my folder of celtic language pdfs for a while now, especially since duolingo has gotten even worse. the folder has pdfs of language-learning material, as well as some stuff on literature, history, indentity, etc. this is very much a work-in-progress, as i will add to the folder as i find more resources.
my folder currently has: welsh, breton, cornish, irish, scottish gaelic, manx, béarlagair na saor, early modern irish and classical gaelic, old irish, middle welsh, old welsh, and proto-celtic (although not all of them have a lot of pdfs in their folders yet).
(also if you want online resources, fiction books, media, etc, then take a look at this website: https://www.celtic-languages.org/Main_Page - it has both free and paid resources for irish, scottish gaelic, manx, welsh, cornish, breton, old irish, and classical gaelic.)