The census recorded the lowest ever proportion of speakers, with the sharpest decline in Carmarthenshire
Market day in the bustling south-west Wales town of Carmarthen and the shops, cafes and streets were humming with chatter.
This week the language those conversations were being held in was pertinent, after the revelation that the number of residents across the country able to speak Welsh had dropped to the lowest proportion ever recorded in a census. Carmarthenshire had experienced the most rapid decline.
