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The syntax of the Welsh language has much in common with the syntax of other Insular Celtic languages. It is, for example, heavily right-branching (including a verb–subject–object word order), and the verb for be (in Welsh, bod ) is crucial to constructing many different types of clauses .
The morphology of the Welsh language has many characteristics likely to be unfamiliar to speakers of English or continental European languages like French or German, but has much in common with the other modern Insular Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, and Breton. Welsh is a moderately inflected language.
An intergovernmental symposium in 1991 titled "Transparency and Coherence in Language Learning in Europe: Objectives, Evaluation, Certification" held by the Swiss Federal Authorities in the Swiss municipality of Rüschlikon found the need for a common European framework for languages to improve the recognition of language qualifications and help teachers co-operate.
11 million word Welsh language dataset; The CorCenCC sampling frame; Transcription protocols for spoken Welsh; Welsh-language POS tagset and tagger, CyTag [3] (English: / ˈ k ə t æ ɡ /): a Welsh POS tagger (with bespoke tagset) designed and constructed for the project. It is used in conjunction with the semantic tagger to tag all lexical ...
Like many of the world's languages, the Welsh language has seen an increased use and presence on the internet, ranging from formal lists of terminology in a variety of fields [102] to Welsh language interfaces for Microsoft Windows XP and up, Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox and a variety of Linux distributions ...
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Welsh language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
The following articles contain more information on Welsh: Welsh syntax; Colloquial Welsh morphology (the patterns that shape the spoken language as it is used by present-day Welsh speakers.) Literary Welsh morphology (the rules governing the use of the formal written language, normally corresponding to older, historical patterns.)
The historical development of the Welsh language has followed an atypical pattern resulting in two highly divergent registers: a literary form, and a colloquial form. These forms are both in modern use, with literary Welsh used in only the most formal or traditional artistic or religious contexts.