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  2. Help:IPA/Welsh - Wikipedia

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    The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Welsh language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

  3. Welsh phonology - Wikipedia

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    The actual pronunciation of long /a/ is [aː], which makes the vowel pair unique in that there is no significant quality difference. Regional realisations of /aː/ may be [æː] or [ɛː] in north-central and (decreasingly) south-eastern Wales or sporadically as [ɑː] in some southern areas undoubtedly under the influence of English.

  4. Welsh orthography - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Ll - Wikipedia

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    The Middle-Welsh LL ligature. [1]Unicode: U+1EFA and U+1EFB.. In Welsh, ll stands for a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative sound (IPA: [ɬ]).This sound is very common in place names in Wales because it occurs in the word llan, for example, Llanelli, where the ll appears twice, or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, where (in the long version of the name) the ll appears five times – with two instances of ...

  6. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]

  7. Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives - Wikipedia

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    The sound is rare in European languages outside the Caucasus, but it is found notably in Welsh in which it is written ll . [13] Several Welsh names beginning with this sound ( Llwyd [ɬʊɨd] , Llywelyn [ɬəˈwɛlɨn] ) have been borrowed into English and then retain the Welsh ll spelling but are pronounced with an / l / (Lloyd, Llewellyn), or ...

  8. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.

  9. Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants

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    The voiced alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants is l , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is l.