Click to see full answer. Also, what does a Welsh accent sound like? In the Welsh language it is usually always pronounced with a hard "g" sound. It is like the "guh" sound in great or goodness. However, in a Welsh accent you would say the word "gentle" with a soft "g" as you would say the second g in garage or the name "George. Also Know, what Welch sounds like? For those who have never heard Welsh , it has a similar intonation to Spanish, with a rolled R and pure vowel sounds.
Welsh is written as it is spoken, It is a phonetic language. Therefore there are no unwanted letters, can make it an easy language but has a few properties called mutations which change words so it flows easily when spoken. The vowels are rather nasal with a French U and in some places they have a guttural R. Do the Welsh roll their R's?
In most of Wales the R is rolled rather than trilled, but in some parts of Gwynedd, north-west Wales they have a guttural French R. Is the Welsh a race? The term "Welsh people" applies to people from Wales Welsh: Cymru and people of Welsh ancestry perceiving themselves or being perceived as sharing a cultural heritage and shared ancestral origins.
What is the Welsh accent called? The Cardiff accent, also known as Cardiff English, is the regional accent of English, and a variety of Welsh English, as spoken in and around the city of Cardiff, and is somewhat distinctive in Wales, compared with other Welsh accents.
How are the Welsh different from the English? The Welsh language is in the Celtic language group, whereas English is in the West Germanic group; consequently the English language is further from the Welsh language in both vocabulary and grammar than from a number of European languages, such as Dutch, for example.
Is English spoken in Wales? However, first-language and other fluent speakers can be found throughout Wales. Can Prince Charles speak Welsh? Do I have a voice? How do you say Wales in Welsh? The Welsh accent seems remarkably like an Indian English accent - the tonalisms, and some of the vowels, such as the general monothong quality. Do you notice this? I think this is the first time I have ever heard the two compared to each other. No, they do not sound alike to my ears.
I don't think that Welsh people sound like Indians. But when others try and imitate the Welsh accent, it does tend to sound like Mahatma Gandhi.
Yes, the Welsh accent certainly does sound like the Indian accent in my opinion - my grandfather pointed this out to me, and I agree entirely. It's interesting, maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe there's a link in the ancestry of the languages, their being IE languages.
No, it has nothing to do with the fact that English spoken with influences from the Welsh language, and English spoken with influences from the Indo-Iranian sound similar. The Welsh accent, so called The accent of North West Wales In North East Wales - well, this area is highly Anglicised, and with Liverpool and Merseyside being so very close by the Scouse accent has a ready influence on the local accent. Going south through Wales in those areas closest to the English border the inhabitants have a local accent very bucolic in character - similar to that just over the border, beyond Offa's ancient Dyke, in neighbouring England Here the number of actual Welsh speakers is quite low, as you would expect being so close to Great God England.
Further south again, into South East Wales, the number of regular Welsh speakers declines even further, especially in Gwent also called Monmouthshire - here you are more likely to hear Polish or any of the Baltic States languages being spoken than you would Welsh Just watch them watching Wales play rugby against England at Cardiff Arms Park - the singing sounds as if its coming from massed choirs of the highest calibre!
The Cardiff accent is very distinctive in its own right Cardiff is home to many well known personalities - the fluent Welsh speaking singer Katherine Jenkins for one, and the film actor Ioan Gruffydd for another - he is well conversant in Welsh as well West out of Swansea and you are back into a thoroughly Welsh speaking region of Wales again Dyfed say it something like "DOVE-edd" and you've got is spot on!
Lastly to the extreme South West tip of Wales - the bit that juts out the most into the sea - it's called Pembrokeshire - the home of Orlando Bloom But it most certainly is not so - in fact it's called Little England beyond Wales. The reasons for this are historical, the Vikings settled in this spart of Wales many yonks ago and as a result the Celtic influence was minimal in this area, and you can easily see this by glancing at a map of Pembrokeshire - all the place names are Anglo Saxon - Rosehaven Little Haven, Haverfordwest where Orlando comes from , Fishguard, Tenby, Cheriton Carew, Castlemartin etc etc etc.
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