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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.

<script src="https://twitchcoded.neocities.org/webring/webstring.js"></script>

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:

i like that the word for the cornish language in breton is essentially "big cornish"¹ because "cornish"² on its own would mean the dialect of breton.

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1. kerneveureg. kernev is cognate with the welsh "cernyw" and english "cornwall", but refers to a region in brittany. and kernev-veur is used to mean cornwall, and means "big cornwall" essentially.

2. kerneveg is a dialect of breton, and the word cognate with the welsh "cernyweg" and english "cornish".

interesting also how wales in irish is "an bhreatain bheag", i.e. "the small britain". which is also essentially what the word brittany means in english. brittany is also called "small britain" in scottish gaelic - "a' bhreatann bheag".

and the irish "an bhreatain mhór" is "the big britain", which is again what it's basically called in english too - great britain.

would any celtic languages speakers/learners with websites like to be part of a celtic languages webring?? i haven't made anything yet, but i'm just gauging interest. all the celtic-related webrings i've found online are a decade or two old and don't seem to be being maintained anymore so there's no way to join.

you wouldn't have to be a fluent speaker or have a site dedicated to just celtic languages, you just need to be using a celtic language at least a bit on your site. i'd like to promote the active use of celtic languages online, so it would probably only be modern celtic languages (sorry medievalists).

how on earth do you arrive at this conclusion?? "society needs to be inclusive which means we need to get rid of minority languages".

why are we, as minority cultures, supposed to give up our languages and cultures so that people who refuse to care about us can feel "included"?? it's like those absolutely ridiculous takes that scotland/wales/etc having minority languages and wanting independence "only serves to divide us" and "we need to focus on our similarities and not our differences". differences are good and should be celebrated, not squashed out in order to create some sort of sanitised "inclusivity".

why should we need to make members of majority cultures feel included when they say things like this about us?? we are obviously going to purposely exclude you when you're acting so mean and vile like this. why can't you learn about our languages and cultures and take part in them and be included in them?? i think most speakers of minority languages in britain would be happy to hear you're learning our languages. why don't you broaden your horizons and include yourselves into more languages, instead of deciding that an "inclusive society" means we need to give up everything so we can all be like you. different cultures/languages/etc are good. i don't understand how people will say they want an inclusive society, and then it turns out they mean cultural genocide. how are we as minority cultures meant to feel included??

also "it's almost like a different language".... uh yeah, because it IS a different language.. what on earth am i supposed to say to that..

and "gaelic is only as much use to those who understand it" yeah i feel like english is also only useful to people who understand it?? couldn't you say that about every language??

god i hate twitter