Cambridge University Linguists Tap Into Twitter To Study Welsh Language

Oh, those University of Cambridge professors.

First, they perform live Twitter experiments, showing how the interconnectivity of hashtags in tweets is just like the human brain network.

Now, they’ve published research that taps into Twitter to study 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 — 562,000 people — but enough of them tweet in Welsh to provide the Cambridge researchers with a database of source material.

But

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