It has taken experts at the University of Wales in Bangor five years to transcribe and edit the collection.

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Julia Jones of the University of Wales, Bangor, and her colleagues may soon have the answer to that question.

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The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) will work in collaboration with Oxford University, King's College London, Bangor University and the National Library of Wales on the "archaeological background of the emergence of the Celtic languages in western Europe".

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However the minister has rejected a recommendation to formally merge Aberystwyth and Bangor, however accepted the advice to merge the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Swansea Metropolitan University.

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