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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.
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.
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.
At the National Eisteddfod of Wales 2009, a further announcement was made by the Welsh Language Board that the mobile phone company Samsung was to work with the network provider Orange to provide the first mobile phone in the Welsh language, [105] with the interface and the T9 dictionary on the Samsung S5600 available in the Welsh language. The ...
English: A vowel chart of Welsh. The formants for [ɑ] are as given in the source, but may well be mistaken. The formants for [ɑ] are as given in the source, but may well be mistaken. One would expect a somewhat lower F1 (around 700–750 Hz) and a much lower F2 (around 750–800 Hz).
The [ɬ] sound is also found in two of the constructed languages invented by J. R. R. Tolkien, Sindarin (inspired by Welsh) and Quenya (inspired by Finnish, Ancient Greek, and Latin). [ 17 ] [ 18 ] In Sindarin, it is written as lh initially and ll medially and finally, and in Quenya, it appears only initially and is written hl .
Welsh language sign found in Prague McDonald's. Oscar Edwards - BBC Wales News. January 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM. Dion's friend Tom posed with the sign before being admonished by a McDonald's employee ...
The phonology of Middle Welsh is quite similar to that of modern Welsh, with only a few differences. [3] The letter u, which today represents /ɨ/ in North Western Welsh dialects and /i/ in South Welsh and North East Welsh dialects, represented the close central rounded vowel /ʉ/ in Middle Welsh.