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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Llywelyn (pronounced [ɬəˈwɛlɪn]) is a Welsh personal name, which has also become a family name most commonly spelt Llewellyn [1] (/ l u ˈ ɛ l ɪ n / loo-EL-in).The name has many variations and derivations, mainly as a result of the difficulty for non-Welsh speakers of representing the sound of the initial double ll (a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative).
The last thing you would expect to find on your holiday in the Czech Republic is a sign warning you about a wet floor written in Welsh. But that is exactly what happened to Dion Jones, from ...
Good luck, you'll need it. Especially for the vowels. ... I think that is a good suggestion, and takes the uninitiated reader closer to the Welsh pronunciation.
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