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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Wales

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Wales

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom

1.7 Regulated By

Welsh Language Commissioner

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

English Language

1.10 Derived From

British Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

7
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Helô

3.2 Thank You

Diolch

3.3 How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?

3.4 Good Night

Nos da

3.5 Good Evening

Noswaith dda

3.6 Good Afternoon

P'nawn da

3.7 Good Morning

Bore da

3.8 Please

os gwelwch yn dda

3.9 Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym

3.10 Bye

Hwyl

3.11 I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di

3.12 Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Argentina

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

38,000.00
Rank: 45 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Gwynedd

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Powys

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

7.40 million
Rank: 64 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

7.40 million
Rank: 56 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Cymraeg

5.3.4 French Name

gallois

5.3.5 German Name

Kymrisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]

5.5 Ethnicity

Welsh people

6 History

6.1 Origin

9th Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Celtic

6.2.2 Branch

Brythonic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Welsh

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

cy

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

cym

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

wel

7.3 ISO 639 3

cym

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

wels1247

7.6 Linguasphere

50-ABA

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Historical

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Origin of Welsh language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Welsh language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Welsh language states that it was put to use in 9th Century. The history of Welsh language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Welsh Language History.The evolution of Welsh language began with early forms such as Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh. Welsh is the standard form of Welsh language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Welsh Language.

Welsh population

Welsh population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Welsh language. Welsh language is spoken by 7.40 million people in the world. Most of the Welsh population lies in the Welsh Speaking Countries. Welsh language is spoken as first language by 7.40 million people and no total count of people speaking Welsh as second language. Get to know Welsh speaking population in detail.

Welsh writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Welsh writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Welsh language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Welsh language. Learn more about . 

Information about Welsh language

Check out all the information about Welsh language here. You may find it interesting to learn Welsh Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Welsh Speaking Countries, Welsh speaking continents and Welsh Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Welsh countries knowing common Welsh Greetings will help you in communicating with Welsh people.