Modern Welsh can be considered to fall broadly into two main registers —Colloquial Welsh (Cymraeg llafar) and Literary Welsh (Cymraeg llenyddol). Colloquial Welsh is used in most speech and informal …

Welsh (Cymraeg) is a Celtic language family spoken mainly in Wales, and also in England and Argentina, by about 720,000 people.

Welsh language, member of the Brythonic group of the Celtic languages, spoken in Wales.

Discover the origins and history of Britain’s oldest language, Welsh, and how it's used on a daily basis in modern Wales.

Welsh is a member of the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family, closely related to Breton and Cornish. The roots of the Welsh language can be traced back to the Celtic languages spoken by …

Old Welsh is the term used to describe the Welsh language from approximately the 6th to the 9th centuries. It is during this period that we find the earliest written records in Welsh, including the …

Jul 9, 2025 · The University of Wales Dictionary is the standard historical Welsh dictionary. It’s similar to the Oxford English Dictionary but for Welsh. It is available online and as an app for your phone or …

In Welsh literature, the word Cymry was used throughout the Middle Ages to describe the Welsh, though the older, more generic term Brythoniaid continued to be used to describe any of the Britonnic …

Welsh is the earliest and best attested of the British languages. Although the material is fragmentary until the 12th century, the course of the language can be traced from the end of the 8th century.

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