jusmanishimul: Cambridge University Linguists Use Twitter To Study How Welsh Language Use Is Changing

Another reason Twitter is awesome: Cambridge University linguists are using it to track how the usage of one of the U.K.'s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing. Welsh is only spoken by around a sixth of the population of Wales but enough of those Welsh speakers are tweeting in Welsh to have allowed the researchers to compile a database of source material to use as a jumping off point.