• Welsh speakers worldwide. 1 million. ... The links on the left contain English to Welsh translations as well as other tools and info for learning Welsh.
  • See the Lords prayer in Breton, and also the Lords prayer in Manx for a comparison with one of the goidelic languages, A brief history of the Welsh language.
  • A modern Welsh literature was created in which the various prose genres enjoyed almost the same esteem as the poetic, and drama flourished for the first time.
  • Welsh began to emerge as a distinctive language sometime between 400 and 700 AD as we can see from early Welsh poetry that originated around this period.
  • How typical of us that the word designates a sporting term, especially when we remember that to welsh is to avoid payment or to break one's word!
  • And being a phonetic language, only c is used to convey the k sound, for instance. U is a vowel in Welsh (similar to the German umlaut).
  • However, it experienced a resurgence during the Middle Ages, when Welsh poets and bards produced a large body of Welsh-language literature.
  • Irish has close to 2 million speakers, most of whom are in the Republic of Ireland; Welsh has about 1 million speakers, and most reside in Wales.
  • Because just before the end of regular playing time, the Welsh smelled, when Orange was already in the locker room with their thoughts, that a draw was still possible.
  • The Welsh people are Celtic (central and western European) in origin and have their own language and cultural heritage.