There's A Region Of Argentina That Speaks Welsh 

“God, please not Wales or Argentina.” “Sir, where am I?” “Puerto Madryn.”

I'm Welsh

My school were taught about patagonia in Welsh lessons and it became a joke when you asked "why are we learning Welsh if it's not spoken anywhere else" and someone would say "what about Argentina?"

Y Wladfa, relatively well known in Wales and unheard of anywhere else. Theres a Welsh film called Patagonia about Welsh-Argentinians visiting Wales and Welsh people visiting Patagonia

"I like this flag more than the Peoples Republic of China" *Social Credit Score -100000*

A few years ago I actually went on a school trip to Patagonia (from Wales) and visited the area where they speak Welsh. It was a really weird experience but so much fun and my favourite thing was definitely how the Welsh and Argentinian accents blended when they spoke Welsh. Many of the places in the area are actually named oddly because they are the Spanish way of saying Welsh words.

"as much as we love the peoples republic of china, they do many great things for the world like.. anyway china"

"This sounds like a fan-made thing" this implies there are Argentina fans

I live surprisingly close to the Welsh town you speak of always struck me as rather odd that someone would choose to name their city "Gay man"

Still probably a higher percentage of Welsh speakers than Wales itself

This is exactly the kind of content that brought me into the Toycat empire in the first place -- thank you!

Brits: "The Falklands is ours" Argentina: Learns Welsh to claim it for themselves

I live there in Patagonia, you miss that lady Diana came to visit here due this colony. Also there's still the cup that she drank from at the tea house she came (little spilled for a princess lol). Ask me anything.

as an Australian seeing west Australian become independent wouldn't be that surprising seeing the current way Australia's going

Fun fact of the welsh colony in Argentina: They teach welsh and it's recognised as a regional lenguage And the Tibet's flag it's marvelous >:c

The Celtic part of Spain is Galicia, its the portion right above Portugal :) It's basically a basin surrounded by mountains.

In Wales it is taught in most schools that we had a colony in Patagonia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤣

i have fond memories of watching your minecraft videos in around (if i remember correctly) 2013-2015 (where i would've been 8-10 years old) and even though i'm not very interested in minecraft anymore i recently found out about your geography videos and since i just happen to be more interested in geography these days i still manage to find enjoyment in your videos after all these years! greetings from australia!!!

I visited Puerto Madryn and Trelew. It was quite an interesting dynamic compared to other parts of Argentina I visited. I would say it’s a place known for being a place with a lot of Welsh descendants, but many of the people there told me that there isn’t a huge welsh-speaking population. Like most other immigrant populations in Argentina, they all learned Spanish over time and almost everyone there who speaks welsh also speaks Spanish.

I'm from the Chubut province. Everyone speaks Spanish here. Yes some people speak Welsh, there is a strong Welsh descendants community, and people from Wales come here all the time, but is not an isolated thing from the rest of the country. There were even Welsh Argentines in the Falklands in war.

Another weird South american fun fact is that here in Brazil in some cities the Pomeranian dialect is spoken.

This also explains that Argentina was once wealthy enough that people from Wales would cross across Atlantic to the south to settle there than go few miles to Manchester or London. Its interesting that Argentina attracted all sorts of people.

This place is actually a huge tourist attraction. I live a couple of hours by car away and it's super popular for people who live here to go and spend the day there and try their tea which is special. They also have a train museum which I visited with my school a couple of years back

You know an unassuming person reading the title might think you may have just started another war between the British and the Argentines.

"Uh Wlad-vah" is how you pronounce 'Y Wladfa'. It means something like 'the colony' but may have a more nuanced meaning. The "Wlad-" in Y Wladfa comes from the same root as 'Gwlad' in the chorus of the Welsh anthem and translates roughly as 'Country', 'Land' or 'Homeland'.

As an Argentinian myself, I didn't know, but as a considerable porcentage of our population are immigrants or their descendance, I don't find it strange at all. In fact, in most portuary cities (like mine) there are some red English mail boxes too

I know some famous German artist living in Argentina too! What a beautiful diverse country

I am Welsh and I remember learning about Patagonia in my school. I learned that the English almost killed the Welsh language. In schools at the time you would get in trouble for speaking Welsh. Side note , you uploaded this a few days aftet the day were we in Wales celebrate our language witch is 'Diwrnod Shwmae Su'mae'.

Eyyy, I’m welsh and they would always teach us about Patagonia in school hahah

I'm from Argentina and I go to Puerto Madryn, Gaiman and Trelew every year. It is common to see remains of Welsh culture. Maybe the name of some place, a historical and cultural site or the not strange Welsh pastry and cousine. Specially in Gaiman, which is a little town compared to Puerto Madryn or Trelew, you could go to a traditional Welsh tea house, there are lots of them. There is even one, which is precious and lovely, personally my favorite, where Princess Dianna went to.

I'm going to watch this later when i'm going to eat lunch. edit: Watched it and enjoyed it and i also enjoyed my lunch.

Remember that there are tons of history that aren't told or known yet like the untold history of Wales' secret colony down in Argentina.

My two state solution to Israel-Palestine: Israel: New England Palestine: New Wales Then we can redo the whole whole history of England and Wales with a new backdrop.

In this video, I suppose that the Scots Gaelic-speaking part of Cape Breton Island and elsewhere in Nova Scotia could have been discussed at least in passing. I regard that as the Canadian equivalent of the Welsh colony of Chubut, Argentine Patagonia.

Toycat: "The number of countries is only going to increase as time goes on" Also Toycat: thinks the EU will become one country someday

I miss him saying "Where we talk about geography and the world and stuff".

He's wearing glasses! :0 Looking good 😎

did anyone else find this before his main channel

Puerto Madryn is awesome, I even got the colony´s flag as a souvenir

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 whooo

I went there in 2017 most people dont speak welsh anymore, its just another argentine town with a migrant colony past. There are many weird migrant colonies forgoten in the argentine interior, my father came from one of swedish, germans and russians in the midle of the jungle in misiones province

Hello, Argentinian here! Haven't been there sadly, but have visited other regions in which other languages are spoken, greetings from here!

I've lived in Argentina and I never learned about this

I'm busy so I can't view this video rn but I'm really happy someone's making a video about Puerto Madryn. I live in Buenos Aires and I've been to this place and I loved it

Cyrmugonia (Combination of the Welsh name of Wales and the Argentine region of Patagonia)

how to gain independence from a major world power: trick great britain into thinking you're a former colony

About 6 months ago I learned about Welsh Argentina and found it very interesting how it happened, like the german colonization of southern Chile. Glad there's more interesting videos talking about it

Also interesting that the Welsh-speaking enclave in Argentina is not that far from the British Falklands, populated by mostly people of Welsh origin. Great video!

I always read it as ‘Boganville’, and imagine a city built on mullets, VB, and, Commodores.

It's not a separate colony, colony in this case means settlement, but I mean there are settlements of non-spanish or Portuguese origin in many places in South America, where people would come from overseas buy a farm and start a small village. It doesn't make them a different colony they never had political autonomy or anything like that.

support country independence because of a lot things: nope support country independence because of their flags: yes

In Patagonia, Argentina, there exists also an Afrikaner/Boer enclave or community. They fled South Africa during the 2nd Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) in which the English burnt down farmland and rounded up women and children and put them in concentration camps. The Afrikaner/Boers have had a bit of a goodluck-badluck moment, because they found diamonds and gold in their independent republics, which set off the wars between them and the British. When these Boers fled to Argentina, the government gave them a large portion of arid, dry land to farm on, BUT THEN THEY STRUCK OIL and the government took the land back to get rich from this natural resource. The families still live there and there is a documentary about them called 'The Boers at the end of the world'.

About time you got around to this.

Lady Di visited Gaiman in Chubut, Argentina where there are ppl of Wesh ancestry. Greetings from Paraná, Entre Ríos (Argentina)

8:45 Ah yes, the two main characteristics of European culture: Cobblestone roads and Colonialism

Wales is a country (principality to be precise) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a Nation made up of 4 countries with distinct languages histories and cultures. Why is this so hard for people.

im welsh

-“European cultures are the ones with imperialism and cobble stone roads” -Japan hiding the fact they were a huge imperial power

ah yes, my favorite language... western

Im Argentinian and this is true. Cheers from Argentina!!

I'd just advise a little caution. People in Latin America really like to pretend they are like foreigners, particularly Europeans or Americans, and so similarities or connections to those places are often hugely exaggerated. In Brazil for example it's almost a meme how people invariably will talk about how "there are many Germans in the south of Brazil", or "Brazil is a country of immigrants", whenever there is a mention of the country online - and unironically, particularly if the mention associates Brazil too much with Latin America, Africa, or its own local culture. It is as if in their minds immigration from 100 years ago would rub on them and make them Europeans or as if they could make Brazil the US simply by repeating those mantras, "we are like the US, we are an immigration society", while if you actually go to the south of Brazil you'll realize it is nothing like German, people don't speak German basically at all, and in the places where there is "German architecture" oftentimes it's literally just the façade to attract tourists. Numbers of immigrants and descendants in Brazil, as well as their influence, are also greatly exaggerated by these people. So it's good to make a lot of research before believing their tales.

Litteraly found about at this yesterday, cool that you are making a video about it

And there’s a region of Argentina that speaks German…

Yeah, I actually made an entire video delving into the language itself, interesting case of a diaspora language.

At 3:40 I really thought you were about to say that this is why there is a huge German population in Argentina and I think that pause you did there was on purpose

I though this would be a german grandpa joke

12:25 I died when he just went silent XD

Y Cymry oedd y rhai tu ôl i'r ymerodraeth drwy'r amser!

I'm a Welsh person, and I never knew that!

"don't want to upset Daddy China any way". 🤔 We won't tell anyone..

12:23 Watch out toycat! Your social credit was lowered after your comment about the CCP. We're going to have to take your channel for a bit in order to put it back on the right path. Also how do you know what an independence movement is? and what is Taiwan? Keep working loyal citizen for a better social credit

Flag critique episodes ? ... maybe

I went to a Welsh primary school and this is something they brung up frequently

China? You mean Western Taiwan?

Tbh Argentina is rightfully British clay.

Gretings from mar del plata Argentina 🇦🇷🤗.. Espero que en alguna ocasión nos visites..😊. Wlecome.

I just love that at 12:25, he doesn't mention any good things China does 🤣

Glad to see you only took 3 keys instead of your 3 lines for this video.

The fact that Bougainville is located in the Solomon Islands chain (though not the country of that name) makes me think of a typical name that sounds Moroccan Jewish (which could be most typically found in Israel, France, and my own city of Montreal, where I know tons of Moroccan Jews). This name is...Shlomo Bouganim, or perhaps Salomon Bouganim or Solomon Bouganim. (Shlomo is Hebrew for Solomon, and Bouganim sounds a bit like Bougainville.)

As a Western Australian I have never felt state pride until watching this video.

I hate how every welsh teacher all ways goes on about Patagonia whenever someone says something about Welsh not being worth the time to learn.

*Reads Title In Notifications* A Toycat Video About Y Wladfa? Hell Yeah! EDIT: So, He Didn't Mention It, So I Want To Share One Of My Favourite Fun Facts About Y Wladfa: The Modern Welsh Number System Was Invented In Y Wladfa. To Explain, There Are Actually Two Commonly Used Welsh Counting Systems: The Traditional "Vigesimal" System, And The Newer "Decimal" One. The Traditional One Is Kinda Complicated, But For The Most Part Has Individual Names For Everything From 1-20, Plus 40, 60, And 80, And Names All Other Numbers Are Based On That, For Example 35 Is Said As "15 On 20", I Believe, While The New System Is Much Simple, Two-Digit Numbers Are Just Said As A Combination of Three Words: The Number Of Tens, The Number Ten, And Then The Number Of Ones, So 35 Is Thus Said Literally As "3 Ten 5", And This Newer One Was Invented By A Patagonian Businessman. Bonus Fun Fact: You May Have Heard About The Silly Way French Expresses Numbers 60-100, And Specifically 99, But Welsh Does It In An Arguably Even More Silly Way, With The Traditional System Atleast, In Which 99 Is Said As "4 On 15 And Four Twenty".

loved your culturerambling.

was hoping you would talk about the canada red ensign with the negative space. not feeling the shirt joke

the bougainville flag looks like the amiga boing ball

im in year 10 in wales and we had to learn about this throughout ks3 years

This kind of videos is how I found Toycat.

Fun fact: there's a German town in Venezuela They sell a bomb ass hot chocolate and strawberries

I guess I remember something from all those duolingo lessons, Ty Gwyn is clearly white house, and Ysgol Gymraeg is a Welsh school, Plas y Coed is something to do with "the forest" 9:40 "ee oo-lahd-vah" 18:10, you are thinking of Galicia but the celtic culture there is more of an import from britons (ancestral welsh people) fleeing Britain while it was being conquered by the Anglo-Saxons, some of which ended up in France and became the Bretons of Brittany.

Now's the time for the Queen to walk down the Patagonia and colonize the Argentine Welsh towns herself...

There's also a part of Brazil that speaks German

12:24 "They do many great things for the world like... Anyways so as much as we love China"

Literally me, i'm from rawson and i speak welsh

Strange. Last time I heard about that region was in the 1940’s when people were speaking German down there.

Wow I didn't know I can speak Welsh so this is cool

Found out recently I’m Welsh, and this got recommended, pretty cool.

As a Brit living in Israel, I would love to have a two-state solution with the Welsh. Finally some good culture over here. I highly support it.

All the flags of the British colonial governors had the colony's badge in the centre with Union flag in background. Queensland, Australia still uses that type of flag proposed for Westralia.

Yay someone talking about Western Australia . Petrol station gets its petrol oil trucks from Perth so costs more. yep many towns are just a road house (Petrol station with a cafe and big enough for trucks) or where my uncle's a farm is a billboard haha . That topic even is talked about atm. Im a west Aussie :)

Lol I visited near there when I was young, I'm from Buenos Aires