Langfiles Ep. 18: Welsh

Come and join me to a magical land. A land where the people speak a Celtic language. A land with the best of Welsh Cakes, Welsh Lam Soup and even Welsh Beer/Whisky: the country of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.
Special Thanks go to Ellis Vaughn for the audio samples + corrections/additions made to this video. This video is dedicated to the Learn Welsh and Celtic languages discord servers for additional help.
Learning Welsh (Dysgu Cymraeg): / discord
Celtic Languages: / discord
1st Song, Adventure Time Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage!! - It's So Cold
2nd Song, Sonic Colors - Planet Wisp (Act 1) (MeanGreenLuigi Remix)
3rd Song, Another Super Mario Bros. Wii - Super Mario Land Overworld
All music and images used in this video are not mine, besides the frames I made, and all belong to their respective creators as they appear in this video.

[@seid3366]

Learning Welsh (Dysgu Cymraeg) -> discord.gg/WBA3wRWKhK Celtic Languages -> discord.gg/v7cEFvMGgs

[@gwennichathasaigh9252]

Wonderful video! 👏

[@seid3366]

Thank you very much.

[@easytiger6570]

Someone might even say wondershare!

[@angharadhafod]

Welsh speaker here. I can pretty much understand written Cornish and get the gist of spoken Cornish. With Breton I probably have a clue what's going on, but probably wouldn't be able to have any meaningful conversation. I have learnt a little bit of Scots Gaelic, but had I not done so I think I wouldn't be able to understand more than the odd word here and there. A number of Gaelic words become clear though if you know that Welsh P translates to Gaelic C. E.g. Welsh Pen = Gaelic Ceann (head, end). Welsh Pwy = Gaelic Co (who)

[@water594]

A small correction - the main verb in 'Mae'r plant yn chwarae.' is 'mae' not 'chwarae'. In fact 'chwarae' i not a verb - its a verbnoun. Welsh is rigidly VSO with person conjugation. However in sentences with a copula, the copula is identified as the verb, put in the V position and conjugated - whereas the secondary verb takes its verbnoun form and is put btween the subject and object. Modern day Welsh only uses the classic VSO form with past tense making it 'Chwaraeodd y plant." -odd being the 3rd person past tense verb conjugation. However in literary Welsh you can also do so in the present tense - and it would be 'Chwery'r plant', the ending '-ery' indicating present tense 3rd person and 'r being the reduced form of y for different reasons.

[@water594]

Also - the list of copulas you used is the colloquial list, not the literary. The literary list is; Rydw i Rwyt ti Mae e Mae hi Rydyn ni Rydych chi Maen nhw and Ydw i Wyt ti Yw e Yw hi Ydyn ni Ydych chi Ydynt nhw I can still hear the song/rhym we the teacher made us sing echoing that through my head. I think the literary forms reveal the patterns behind the grammar better than the colloquial forms.

[@water594]

But overall fidio neis yw hynny :)