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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 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.
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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.
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.
Cofi (Welsh pronunciation:) is one of the regional accents and dialects of the Welsh language found in north Wales, and centred on Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, and its surrounding district. A person from Caernarfon is known colloquially as a Cofi. [1] Cofi has been called "one of Wales’ most famous regional dialects".
Tara is Welsh for bye. Tara wan means bye now which is a common Southern Welsh dialect phrase. You'll find in South Wales that more people than not say Tara instead of good-bye. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:1C8C:BE00:50D:BB32:B72A:2003 19:00, 12 April 2019 (UTC) "Goodbye for now". Not sure of the origins.
In Welsh-language poetry, cynghanedd (Welsh pronunciation: [kəŋˈhaneð], literally "harmony") is the basic concept of sound-arrangement within one line, using stress, alliteration and rhyme. The various forms of cynghanedd show up in the definitions of all formal Welsh verse forms, such as the awdl and cerdd dafod.