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Countries

Countries
Wales

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Wales

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Europe

Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom

Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner

Interesting Facts
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.

Similar To
English Language

Derived From
British Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
29 11

Phonology

How Many Vowels
7 4

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks 10

Greetings

Hello
Helô

Thank You
Diolch

How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?

Good Night
Nos da

Good Evening
Noswaith dda

Good Afternoon
P'nawn da

Good Morning
Bore da

Please
os gwelwch yn dda

Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym

Bye
Hwyl

I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di

Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi

Dialects

Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh

Where They Speak
Argentina

How Many People Speak
38,000.00 82

Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg

Where They Speak
Gwynedd

How Many People Speak
700,000.00 68

Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg

Where They Speak
Powys

How Many People Speak
700,000.00 57

Total No. Of Dialects
8 8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.40 million 64

Speaking Population
0.24 % 44

Native Speakers
7.40 million 56

Second Language Speakers
0.70 million 62

Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg

Alternative Names
Cymraeg

French Name
gallois

German Name
Kymrisch

Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]

Ethnicity
Welsh people

History

Origin
9th Century

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Celtic

Branch
Brythonic

Language Forms

Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh

Standard Forms
Welsh

Language Position
31 29

Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
cy

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
cym

ISO 639 2/B
wel

ISO 639 3
cym

ISO 639 6
cym

Glottocode
wels1247

Linguasphere
50-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

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Know Alphabets in Welsh

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Welsh Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Welsh Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Welsh. Welsh phonology gives Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. There are 7 vowels and 21 consonants in Welsh language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Welsh is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Welsh language is given in detail in this section.

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All Welsh countries

Want to explore all Welsh countries? About Welsh language serves you with all Welsh Speaking Countries. Countries that use Welsh as official language are called as Welsh countries.

  • Countries that use Welsh as their National Language are: Wales.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Welsh as second language are: Welsh is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Welsh greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Welsh Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Welsh language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Welsh language.Learn Welsh greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Helô
  • Thank you: Diolch
  • Good Morning: Bore da
  • Good Evening: Noswaith dda
  • Good Afternoon: P'nawn da

All Welsh Language Codes

Get to know all Welsh language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Welsh Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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