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  2. Welsh phonology - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Welsh language - Wikipedia

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    The phonology of Welsh includes a number of sounds that do not occur in English and ... Economy and Society. The changing fortunes of the Welsh Language in the ...

  4. Help:IPA/Welsh - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. 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.

  6. Celtic languages - Wikipedia

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    Welsh is the only Celtic language not classified as endangered by UNESCO. The Cornish and Manx languages became extinct in modern times but have been revived. Each now has several hundred second-language speakers. Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic.

  7. Middle Welsh - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Old Welsh - Wikipedia

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    Old Welsh (Welsh: Hen Gymraeg) is the stage of the Welsh language from about 800 AD until the early 12th century when it developed into Middle Welsh. [1] The preceding period, from the time Welsh became distinct from Common Brittonic around 550, has been called "Primitive" [ 1 ] or "Archaic Welsh".

  9. Port Talbot English - Wikipedia

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    Consonants in Port Talbot English generally follow those of Received Pronunciation.Some phonological characteristics of consonants specific to PTE include: . Consonants can be geminated by any preceding vowel except long non-close vowels, which is most noticeable for fortis plosives and when they are in intervocalic positions.