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Cwtch (Welsh pronunciation:) is a Welsh-language and Welsh-English dialect word meaning a cuddle or embrace, with a sense of offering warmth and safety. Often considered untranslatable, the word originated as a colloquialism in South Wales, but is today seen as uniquely representative of Wales, Welsh national identity, and Welsh culture.
Roughly like Edward with the d removed: E'ward, or Cockney pronunciation of -ell in words like well, hell. ey /e.ɨ̯/ /e.ɪ/ Two distinct vowels. iw /ɪu̯/ /ɪu̯/ not usually present in English except in the interjection Ew!; closest to 'i-oo' (short i). A small number of English dialects have this sound in words that have "ew" or "ue".
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Welsh on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Welsh in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
From the Old Celtic derwijes/derwos ("true knowledge" or literally "they who know the oak") from which the modern Welsh word derwydd evolved, but travelled to English through Latin (druidae) and French (druide) gull from either Welsh or Cornish; [14] Welsh gwylan, Cornish guilan, Breton goelann; all from O.Celt. * voilenno - "gull" (OE mæw ...
Welsh code-switchers fall typically into one of three categories: the first category is people whose first language is Welsh and are not the most comfortable with English, the second is the inverse, English as a first language and a lack of confidence with Welsh, and the third consists of people whose first language could be either and display ...
The phonology of Welsh is characterised by a number of sounds that do not occur in English and are rare in European languages, such as the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ] and several voiceless sonorants (nasals and liquids), some of which result from consonant mutation.
11 million word Welsh language dataset; The CorCenCC sampling frame; Transcription protocols for spoken Welsh; Welsh-language POS tagset and tagger, CyTag [3] (English: / ˈ k ə t æ ɡ /): a Welsh POS tagger (with bespoke tagset) designed and constructed for the project. It is used in conjunction with the semantic tagger to tag all lexical ...
Isn't the whole point of IPA that it provides a language-independent guide? To pronounce something written in IPA, you shouldn't need to know whether it's English, Welsh, French or whatever, the pronunciation should be encoded in the IPA symbols. Shouldn't it? -- Dr Greg talk 20:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
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