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The diphthongs containing /ɨ/ occur only in northern dialects; in southern dialects /ʊɨ/ is replaced by /ʊi/ and /ɨu, əɨ~ɛɨ, ɔɨ, a(ː)ɨ/ are merged with /ɪu, əi~ɛi, ɔi, ai/. There is a general tendency in the South to simplify diphthongs in everyday speech , e.g. Northern /ɡwaːɨθ/ corresponding to /ɡwaːθ/ in the South, or ...
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.
Welsh makes use of a number of diacritics. The circumflex (ˆ) is mostly used to mark long vowels , so â, ê, î, ô, û, ŵ, ŷ are always long. However, not all long vowels are marked with a circumflex, so the letters a, e, i, o, u, w, y with no circumflex do not necessarily represent short vowels; see § Predicting vowel length from ...
I think that is a good suggestion, and takes the uninitiated reader closer to the Welsh pronunciation. 2A00:23C7:7C9B:AB01:181B:4B17:AC6F:6D12 ( talk ) 15:02, 2 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] I'm a native English speaker who initially read pasta as /ˈpæstə/ and it took me a bit to figure out.
Diphthongs of PTE are /ɪʊ, eɪ, oʊ, ʌɪ, ʌʊ, ɒɪ/. PRICE words are mostly pronounced with /ʌɪ/, but there also exists a marginal /aɪ/ which appears in a small number of words, such as Dai and aye. [9] PTE, like Welsh dialects such as Abercraf English, has preserved several diphthong–monophthong distinctions that other varieties have ...
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]
A Welsh weatherman pronounced one of the longest town names in Europe like it was nothing, ... A weatherman in the U.K. wowed viewers this week by rattling off the name with perfect pronunciation.
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 ...