Can anyone read Welsh?

I'm back to bring all of you more webbing about my project. After I posted yesterday I went to IUCAT. I typed in "How Green was my Valley." Yes, I have already read this wonderful book, but I thought I could use some of the subject headings. The subject headings were not helpful, so I typed in Welsh literature. A book called the Mabinogion appeared. It looked like a collection of Welsh folktales. OK, I thought, I have to check this out. One of the subject headings was Tales--Wales, so I double clinked on it.

My search produced "The Celtic Legends of Glamorgan," and Culhwch and Olwen: an edition and study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale." The rest of the results were in Welsh, or I think they were in Welsh. Anyways, if anyone out there can read Welsh? Anyone? I think I hear crickets.

That's actually another question I have, "how many people in the world still speak Welsh?" I believe it is more than the number who still speak Gallic (the language native of Scotland) and Cornish( the language from Cornwall).

I digress, back to my search for Welsh literature. Since the IU System didn't seem to have many Welsh books, I went to OCLC's WorldCAT. I entered in Tales--Wales and found the Oxford Guide to Welsh Literature. I was excited and it is even in our own library. Tomorrow I am going to look through it and discover more Welsh literature.