5. I have other pronunciation guides to Welsh elsewhere (here, and here and Welsh Idioms here), but I made up a cheat sheet for some common names and places and thought I’d share. There are no 'k' and 'q' in Welsh and 'y' is a vowel2. I suspect Huw said the Punjabi ‘dd’ instead of the longer Cymraeg version!!! There are no 'k' and 'q' in Welsh and 'y' is a vowel2. Cysyllteiriau - Conjunctions E. Rhifau - Numbers F. Rhagenwau - Pronouns Ff. Ch … Two consonants, 'n' and 'r', are sometimes doubled in written Welsh, e.g., "tynnu," "torri." I see the whole word “Rhondda” and that immediately calls up from my memory stores decades of hearing other English speakers saying “Ronda”, and therefore, so do I. I even used to pronounce “Cwm Rhondda” (as in the hymn tune) as “Coom Ronda”, but that definitely sounds wrong to me now (as of course it should).Hang on - changing the subject as is my wont - are you the Gareth King of “Modern Welsh” etc?Hang on - changing the subject as is my wont - are you the Gareth King of “Modern Welsh” etc?He is and has been on the site quite a lot lately, Huw, answering questions. 4. During the 15th and 16th centuries it is variously represented by "dd", "dh" or (in blackletter) d with a dot above. A Welsh word that uses the 'll' is " llan ", which means "church" and appears a lot in place names, including one called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. These consonant sounds will probably be new to you. Our 'f' sound is represented by FFin Welsh. Each letter has only one pronunciation apart from the letter Y which has two pronunciations. Apart from the obscure sound of 'y', 'i', 'u' and 'y' are pronounced in essentially the same way in South However, “bydd”, and “Rhondda”, yes- both a voiced “But yes, “Bydd” and “Rhondda”, both definitely “supposed to be” I really can’t imagine Huw Edwards ever pronouncing “Rhondda” as “Ronda”, under any circumstancesAgreed! It’s all part of a process that literally changes the structure of your brain, which is quite an exciting thought.I’ve listened again carefully to Bydd Gyda Mi" by John ac Alun - this time through my Bose headphones, which have terrific, crystal clear sound quality. Two consonants, 'n' and 'r', are sometimes doubled in written Welsh, e.g., "5. 1.

I know that “dd” is normally pronounced in Welsh like the English “th” (as in dydd, dda, Gwynedd, etc). In fact, I can’t imagine monolingually English language Welsh people round this area pronouncing it like that, whatever the circumstances!As Jeffanderson and Stu point out, it may be just that the sound can be only subtly different if people are speaking quickly.When speaking quickly, the sounds can be hard to distinguish - but that’s the same for any similar sounds in any language, not just Welsh!Having said that, I can imagine someone saying “cwpwrd” as an alternative [Just checking, the GPC actually has “cwpwrd” listed as an alternative for “cwpwrdd”. (I may even have heard it. ?I don’t think there is ever actually a time when ‘dd’ is meant to sound like ‘d’, however it has seemed to me that sometimes, when people are speaking quickly there is almost a sound between ‘dd’ and ‘d’. You, on the other hand, are coming from a different language background, and you can hear a different sound to me.I guess this is the same process by which people who have been speaking / learning for months or sometimes years, will suddenly start hearing a subtlety on the language that escaped them before, as your “new language” brain starts to make sense of the new patterns. ch /x/ Like the Scottish loch.

Both 'ch' and 'll' are single letters in the Welsh alphabet, along with 'dd,' 'ff,' 'ng,' 'ph,' 'rh,' and 'th.

Welsh words: cwm (coomb); carnedd (caneth); Cymru (Kumree) Ch soft and aspirated as in the Scottish loch or Docherty: Welsh words: fach (vach); uwch (youch ), chwi (Chee) Dd as the 'th' in the or seethe: Welsh words: bydd (beethe); carneddau (caneth-eye); ddofon (thovon); ffyddlon (futh lon) F … ALWAYS pronounced as the 'th' in 'thin'. the digraphs Ch, Dd, Ff, Ng, Ll, Ph, Rh, and Th are considered as single characters, and collate after C, D, F, G, L, P, R, and T respectively. Welsh (Cymraeg) is a member of the Brythonic (or British) group of the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family.It is spoken by 562,000 people in the north, west, and south of Wales ().Ethnologue estimates that there are 591,000 users of Welsh worldwide. In medieval Welsh manuscripts, words which in modern Welsh are spelled with double d are almost always spelled with a single "d" (or sometimes "t"). from JackieI think with the Rhondda example, you do sometimes get (with some speakers at least) what we call ‘assimilation’ when the DD is directly preceded by N, a sound that is articulated in roughly the same place - it happens in English as well: if you say ‘that’ on its own, and then say ‘in that’, you may be able to hear a slight difference in the two th’s. When 'f' occurs at the end of words it is frequent silent, e.g., "ara" for "araf",but it is not incorrect to sound it. The acute accent (Welsh: acen ddyrchafedig), the grave accent (Welsh: acen ddisgynedig), the circumflex (Welsh: acen grom, to bach, or hirnod) and the diaeresis mark (Welsh: didolnod) are also used on vowels, but accented letters are not regarded as part of the alphabet. The only double letters in the Welsh language are DD, FF, LL, NN and RR, so if you see any double letters other than these, for example Welshpool has a double OO in it, therefore it's the English name. 's', e.g., "3. C is the Welsh K. It is always hard, as in can or cane, never soft as in once. But there seems to be some exceptions, where the “dd” sounds the same as the English “d”? There is no 'z' in Welsh, but the sound occurs in some borrowed words, in which case it is represented by

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