{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/wfb/wfb02.htm","path":"neu/celt/wfb/wfb02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/wfb/wfb02.htm","text":"Notes on Welsh Pronunciation\nWelsh pronunciation is not nearly so difficult as it is popularly supposed to be. With the exception of y, every letter has an invariable value, and is always pronounced.\nVOWELS.\na short: pronounced as in pan.\na long ,, ,, father.\ne short ,, ,, pen.\ne long ,, like the first element of the diphthong in lane.\ni short ,, as in pin.\ni long ,, ,, machine.\no short ,, ,, cot.\no long ,, like the first element of the diphthong in note.\nu ,, (approximately) like the French u in sur.\nw short ,, like the oo in wood.\nw long ,, ,, like the oo in wooed.\ny ,, sometimes like u in but, and sometimes (approximately) like the French u in sur.\nDIPHTHONGS.\nThey may be pronounced by giving to each of the component vowels the value indicated above.\nCONSONANTS.\nc is always pronounced as k, chi as in the Scotch loch, dd as th in breathe, f as v, ff as f, s is always hard, as in loss; ll represents a spirant l, a very difficult sound to represent in English--Englishmen generally render it as thl.\nACCENT.\nThe accent is nearly always on the last syllable but one (or penult) as Elidyr, Seith\u00e9nyn.\nEXAMPLES.\nGwyddno = Gwithno, th as in breathe; Gwenh\u00fadiw = Gwenhid-ue; Syf\u00e1ddon = Syv\u00e1thon, th as in breathe; Dwt = D\u014fot, oo as in wood; Pwca = P\u014foka, oo as in wood; Ard\u00fadwy = Ardid\u014foi; Llwyd = Ll\u014d\u014did, ll the spirant l, oo as in wooed.","title":"The Welsh Fairy Book: Notes on Welsh Pronunciation","type":"page"}