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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.
A side observation is that adult learners of Welsh are also taught the pronunciations [ɛi ɛɨ] in classes and their learning materials, e.g. Meek in the WJEC's Cwrs Mynediad (2005) has "eu, ei and ey as in the English say". How about:
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.
Pronunciation Language Explanation Shalom: שָׁלוֹם Hello, goodbye, peace Hebrew A Hebrew greeting, based on the root for "completeness". Literally meaning "peace", shalom is used for both hello and goodbye. [6] A cognate with the Arabic-language salaam. Shalom aleichem: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם Peace be upon you
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.
Brinley Jones describes the remarkable range of Salesbury's writings, "the product of a Renaissance humanist scholar, lexicographer, and translator". [3] Mathias describes his motivations as making the Bible available to the Welsh people, and imparting knowledge to them in their own language. [2]
In the vowel table there is a qualitative, difference in the pronunciation of each short vowel and its long counterpart, but as a Welsh speaker myself I don't believe I have heard a qualitative difference for any of the short-long vowel pairs in any dialect of Welsh, only a quantitative difference.
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".