Anyone speak Welsh here?
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recluse
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It is taught in schools in Wales with as much importance as English. Most Welsh people do speak Welsh to each other all the time, but the language is slowly dying. All the signs here are bi-lingual also. It depends a lot on the area in Wales. The larger towns here tend to have much fewer Welsh speakers.
Welsh is also spoken in Patagonia in South America due to the Welsh colonists who went to start a new life there in the 1800's, there's even place's there with Welsh names.
Welsh is also spoken in Patagonia in South America due to the Welsh colonists who went to start a new life there in the 1800's, there's even place's there with Welsh names.
recluse
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Yeah it's ironic that you have to go to the otherside of the world to have a conversation in Welsh!
Ps- Black Sabbath rock!
NormanBates
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Awesome!
I would love to have been brought up with a language like that.
My forebears' were Apache but nobody speaks it :*(
I would love to have been brought up with a language like that.
My forebears' were Apache but nobody speaks it :*(
princess_haru
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I love the sound of Welsh! Sometimes I watch the Welsh channels on Sky, even though I haven't a clue what they're saying lol ;-) Seeing it written blows my mind though; I can't even begin to imagine how the words are pronounced! If I see French written I can take a fairly accurate guess as to how to say it, even though I speak VERY little French, but Welsh looks really alien despite originating so geographically close to English. My friend's dad speaks Medieval Welsh, which must be an insanely niche subject to study!!
princess_haru
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Yeah, that's the one! I don't have Sky at home so I don't watch it very often though. What does the "y" mean - is it "and"? I see that a lot in Welsh sentences and I'm guessing y is used as a vowel in Welsh, is that right?
recluse
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It means 'the'. In English the title would be 'People of the Valley. And yes it's a vowel in Welsh.
recluse
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Oes - ois (not quite like i but a longer sound)
yna - un-nah
rhywyn - rhuh-win
yma - um-ah
yn - un
siarad - sha-rad
cymraeg - come-raeg
The letter 'r' is rolled in the Welsh language.
princess_haru
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Aah, so now I know! Thanks
Pobol always sounded like a really cute name for a kids' show - the first time I saw it in the listings I thought it was gonna be a show about two kids called Pobol and Cwm, hahaha!Wow, that's complicated to try to say! I don't think I'll ever try to speak Welsh in front of a Welsh person for fear of hideously mispronouncing it and accidentally calling their mother something nasty... :
:English is a West Germanic language and Welsh is a Celtic language. Here's an interesting article Languages of Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
princess_haru
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Cool, thanks Nervous! I love Wikipedia, it knows everything
recluse
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Cool, thanks Nervous! I love Wikipedia, it knows everything
It doesn't know my date of birth o'r where i live!
princess_haru
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Haha, no that'd be scary! I'm glad I'm not famous, it'd be terrifying!It doesn't know my date of birth o'r where i live!
recluse
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Do you play the banjo?.....Squeal like a piiiig bwwooy!
NormanBates
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Wait I have a question -
Don't some Gaelic languages have like a special alphabet that the language is written in?
Don't some Gaelic languages have like a special alphabet that the language is written in?