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stavanzer Posted January 3 Posted January 3 On 1/1/2025 at 8:14 AM, 1972coronet said: Blwyddyn Newydd Dda ! MMXXV Welsh? 1
Bugatti Fan Posted January 3 Author Posted January 3 Looks like Welsh. Mostly spoken in North Wales The UK and Ireland has 3 indigenous languages apart from English. Gaelic is spoken in parts of Scotland and the Western Isles. Irish is spoken more towards the West coast of Ireland.
stitchdup Posted January 3 Posted January 3 3 minutes ago, Bugatti Fan said: Looks like Welsh. Mostly spoken in North Wales The UK and Ireland has 3 indigenous languages apart from English. Gaelic is spoken in parts of Scotland and the Western Isles. Irish is spoken more towards the West coast of Ireland. theres actually 4 Noel, they speak doric in the north east of scotland, and foula in shetland has its own language related to old danish but its only got around 40 folk so not enough to count. and a couple of islands in orkney have accents strong enough to be considered a language. for example on the island i'm from originally a chetling is a kitten but a chet is a kettle. its almost like vowells are interchangable and ks and cs can be replaced by ch or j. when my mum and aunt are speaking they could be declaring war or have solved world hunger but nobody will ever know cos they cant be understood, and its worse if they have had a drink, lol 1 1
Bugatti Fan Posted January 3 Author Posted January 3 (edited) That made interesting reading Les ! I was completely unaware of Doric. Is Doric similar to Gaelic in any way ? I often wonder if the Gaelic and Irish languages have some similarity but Welsh seems different altogether. Perhaps they all have Celtic origins whereas I think English might be of Anglo Saxon origin ? Also unaware of that other old Danish language being spoken by a very small island community on Foula. You learn something new every day. Edited January 3 by Bugatti Fan 1
stitchdup Posted January 3 Posted January 3 yeah, even the scottish gov forget about doric, yet every roadsign is in english and gaelic whether its spoken locally or not. i think some cornish is also considered a language 2
Bugatti Fan Posted January 3 Author Posted January 3 You latched onto my last post whilst I was editing it Les. Not heard about a Cornish language, but who knows ? 2
1972coronet Posted January 4 Posted January 4 21 hours ago, stavanzer said: Welsh? Yus... albeit 'generic'. I just dig on those Celtic languages - they're part of me lineage.
1972coronet Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) 17 hours ago, stitchdup said: its almost like vowells are interchangable and ks and cs can be replaced by ch or j. As I understand Welsh orthography, there's no "K" / "k" , as the "C" / "c" is pronounced as a "K" / "k". Well, at least in Middle and Modern Welsh... Latin-based languages don't typically employ "K" / "k" ( yes, I've seen Gælic employ that letter ; "I" / "i" pronounced as "J" / "j" as well.) I wish that I knew more about the Celtic languages ; wish that I could speak / understand at least one regional dialect. Edited January 4 by 1972coronet
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