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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 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 ...
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (GPC) (The University of Wales Dictionary) is the only standard historical dictionary of the Welsh language, aspiring to be "comparable in method and scope to the Oxford English Dictionary". Vocabulary is defined in Welsh, and English equivalents are given. Detailed attention is given to variant forms, collocations ...
English-speakers learning Welsh (e.g. me, though not very much and a long time ago) are often taught to map Welsh /ə/ onto English /ʌ/ [as in "butter"], aren't they? I've seen this advice in books, and John C. Wells also recommended it on his blog, pointing out that English-speakers who map Welsh /ə/ onto English /ə/ end up saying things ...
In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.
A Welsh weatherman pronounced one of the longest town names in Europe like it was nothing, ... A weatherman in the U.K. wowed viewers this week by rattling off the name with perfect pronunciation.
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.
T-glottalization is uncommon but may occur word-finally. [1] H-dropping also often occurs. [1] /tr, dr/ are postalveolar affricates [t̠ɹ̠̊˔, d̠ɹ̠˔], as in RP. [1] Like many other Welsh accents, Port Talbot English is non-rhotic, but when pronounced, /r/ is more often a tap than an approximant . [1] /l/ is always clear . [1]