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A group of boys in the churchyard, photographed by John Thomas in about 1885. Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa (Welsh pronunciation ⓘ) is a former parish in Montgomeryshire, now forming a major part of the community of Llanfihangel in Powys, which covers an area of 5,366 hectares (20.72 sq mi). [1]
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.
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:
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.
The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary (Welsh: Geiriadur yr Academi; sometimes colloquially Geiriadur Bruce, 'Bruce's Dictionary' [1]) is the most comprehensive English– Welsh dictionary ever published. It is the product of many years' work by the editors Bruce Griffiths and Dafydd Glyn Jones. The dictionary was published in 1995, with ...