Northern Welsh vs Southern Welsh

[@Johny40Se7en]

Fideo arbennig (Wonderful video). Love what the lady (2.) says too, pretty much: "been living here about 4 years now, and all over the place there's trees. Trees everywhere. They're useful for flooding, you know? Yeah, it's a very nice place, loads of trees". The council and so on should take note. Especially considering the absolute mess they've made at the top of the Heads of the Valley's road near Hirwaun. Awful, and the amount of flooding is absurd... Cheers for the video.

[@fleshen]

My family are Welsh speakers from Llanelli that moved to different parts of England (Wolverhampton and Oxford) and it's funny to listen how the local accents have changed the way we speak Welsh to each other! We are second generation born in England and all our parents are from Llanelli! My wife's father is from the Valley's and his Welsh is a bit different from my dads until they started to drink😁

[@rebeccadunn2306]

I actually understood some words in the mid Wales welsh! Makes sence as that is where Iearnt to speak it until I was 10 but still surprising of the diferences

[@andrewcamarata9794]

the second one sounded like a cross between german and indian

[@cymro6537]

Which is ironic - as English - not Welsh is in the Germanic language family.

[@mlvendetta2492]

Jesus Christ you’re right 😂

[@gwynedd4023]

It sounds the clearist to me as a Welsh person

[@Els-ll149]

i'm north wales and i didn't even understand that i understand the mid welsh more what can i say im a 13 year old:)

[@huyiii2435]

Wats differncr

[@martabagnoli1212]

Are they mutually intelligible to Welsh speakers?

[@pauldavies9360]

Yes the differences are very minor like Spain's Spanish and Latin American Spanish for example or American English and British English not much difference between them at all really

[@matthewgoodwin9032]

In my Welsh to say I don't have any money it's 'sda fi'm arian'. In the North it's something like 'sgenai'm pres'. Arian means silver (money) and pres means bras (also money).

[@Rhianwynjones]

Personally, I'm from the North, but have never had any difficulties in understanding any of my fellow Welsh speakers no matter where they're from. I suppose it helps to actively listen in the first place. I find that generally with any accent be it from the UK or internationally.

[@siarhian10]

It's fine until you get into slang really

[@cymoeddambyth]

@@Rhianwynjones sai’n gallu deall y cofis 😂😂😂

[@johnjones-ri2lb]

MId-Wales?? She is from Aberystwyth!! Machynlleth is more mid-Wales. Sothach pur!

[@Knappa22]

Aber is definitely a transition town dialect wise. One marker would be ‘oedd’ and ‘ddoe’ rather than ‘o’dd’ and ‘ddo’ which we’d associate with South Wales Welsh.

[@user-ql1jv1dw8s]

I would definitely say that Ceredigion counts as being culturally "West Wales" i.e in the Fro Gymraeg as opposed to being in Mid Wales.

[@Knappa22]

Yes but it is definitely a transition area linguistically speaking. Someone from Tre Taliesin or Talybont is going to speak very differently to somene in Cardigan. The latter would have Pembrokeshire features in their vocab (‘wes’ etc).