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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 .
The following articles contain more information on Welsh: Welsh syntax; Colloquial Welsh morphology (the patterns that shape the spoken language as it is used by present-day Welsh speakers.) Literary Welsh morphology (the rules governing the use of the formal written language, normally corresponding to older, historical patterns.)
Literary Welsh morphology, the morphology and grammar of the formal literary register which is closer (grammatically) to Middle Welsh, retains features lost from the colloquial register, and is used purely for literary purposes. Literary Welsh does not reflect any spoken dialect of Welsh of the past or present.
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.
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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.
The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary (Welsh: Geiriadur yr Academi; sometimes colloquially Geiriadur Bruce, 'Bruce's Dictionary' [1]) is the most comprehensive English– Welsh dictionary ever published. It is the product of many years' work by the editors Bruce Griffiths and Dafydd Glyn Jones. The dictionary was published in 1995, with ...
This category contains articles with Welsh-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages.