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The syntax of the Welsh language has much in common with the syntax of other Insular Celtic languages. It is, for example, heavily right-branching (including a verb–subject–object word order), and the verb for be (in Welsh, bod ) is crucial to constructing many different types of clauses .
Television programmes originally made in the Welsh language or first shown only in Wales. 04 Wal; 35 Awr [1] 35 Diwrnod [2] [3] 100 Lle [4] Adre [5] BANG [6] Byw Celwydd [6] Byw yn yr Ardd; Con Passionate; Cowbois ac Injans; C'mon Midffild; Caerdydd; Cariad@iaith:love4language - broadcast since 2004; Calennig; Craith [6] Cwpwrdd dillad; Dal Ati ...
A Welsh Government video of an English medium school in Wales, where introducing the Welsh language has boosted the exam results. The Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth ('Aberystwyth Welsh School') was founded in 1939 by Sir Ifan ap Owen Edwards, the son of O.M. Edwards, as the first Welsh Primary School. [93] The headteacher was Norah Isaac.
Cyfri'r Geifr (Welsh for 'Counting the Goats'), also known as Oes Gafr Eto after the first line, is a Welsh folk song. [1] Both the tune and the words are traditional ...
A 19th-century Welsh alphabet printed in Welsh, without j or rh The earliest samples of written Welsh date from the 6th century and are in the Latin alphabet (see Old Welsh). The orthography differs from that of modern Welsh, particularly in the use of p, t, c to represent the voiced plosives /b, d, ɡ/ non initially.
For the year ending 30 June 2022, the Welsh Annual Population Survey showed that 29.7% (899,500) people aged three or older were able to speak Welsh. [12] According to the 2021 census , 17.8% (538,300 people) of Wales' population, aged 3 or older, can speak Welsh, a decrease from 19% in 2011.
The morphology of the Welsh language has many characteristics likely to be unfamiliar to speakers of English or continental European languages like French or German, but has much in common with the other modern Insular Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, and Breton. Welsh is a moderately inflected language.