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LingoBear creates short Welsh passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Brythonic Celtic language of Wales, 28-letter Latin alphabet (with digraphs ch, dd, ff, ng, ll, ph, rh, th), VSO word order, initial consonant mutations, ~880,000 speakers.

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What is Welsh and how widely is it spoken?

Welsh (Cymraeg) is a Brythonic Celtic language native to Wales, with around 880,000 reported speakers (2021 census). It has been treated equally with English in Wales since the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011, and the Welsh Government has set a target of one million speakers by 2050. There is also a small Welsh-speaking community in Patagonia (Y Wladfa), Argentina, settled in 1865.

What grammar features does Welsh have?

Welsh uses VSO word order (Mae ci yn rhedeg — 'Is dog running'), three initial consonant mutations (soft: cath 'cat' → fy nghath would be nasal; soft: ei gath 'his cat'), inflected prepositions (with-me, with-you... are single words gen i, gen ti), and two grammatical genders. The alphabet has 28 letters where digraphs like ch, dd, ll, ng count as single letters in dictionaries.