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Countries

Countries

Wales
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

Wales
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Welsh Language Commissioner
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

English Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

British Language
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

710
0 32
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How Many Consonants

219
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Helô
hallo

Thank You

Diolch
Danke

How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Nos da
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Noswaith dda
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

P'nawn da
guten Tag

Good Morning

Bore da
guten Morgen

Please

os gwelwch yn dda
bitte

Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Verzeihung

Bye

Hwyl
Tschüs

I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Argentina
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

38,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Gwynedd
Germany

How Many People Speak

700,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg
Texas German

Where They Speak

Powys
Texas

How Many People Speak

700,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

828
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.40 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Cymraeg
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

gallois
allemand

German Name

Kymrisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Welsh people
Germans

History

Origin

9th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Celtic
Germanic

Branch

Brythonic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
No early forms

Standard Forms

Welsh
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

319
1 120
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Signed Forms

Welsh Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

cy
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cym
deu

ISO 639 2/B

wel
ger

ISO 639 3

cym
deu

ISO 639 6

cym
deus

Glottocode

wels1247
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

50-ABA
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Welsh and German Alphabets

Welsh and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Welsh and German. In Welsh Alphabets there are 29 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Welsh and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Welsh and German languages. The Welsh phonology consist Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Welsh greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Welsh and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Welsh and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Welsh and German dialects. Various dialects of Welsh and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Welsh are spoken in different Welsh Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Welsh vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Welsh dialects include: Patagonian Welsh, Y Wyndodeg. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Welsh and German Speaking population

Welsh and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Welsh and German languages can be compared. The total count of Welsh and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Welsh and German on Welsh vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Welsh and German Language Codes

Welsh and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Welsh and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.