Modern Welsh can be considered to fall broadly into two main registers —Colloquial Welsh (Cymraeg llafar) and Literary Welsh (Cymraeg llenyddol). Colloquial Welsh is used in most speech and informal …

Welsh (Cymraeg) is a Celtic language family spoken mainly in Wales, and also in England and Argentina, by about 720,000 people.

Oct 29, 2025 · Welsh language, member of the Brythonic group of the Celtic languages, spoken in Wales.

Discover the origins and history of Britain’s oldest language, Welsh, and how it's used on a daily basis in modern Wales.

4 days ago · The story of the Welsh language is part of a linguistic puzzle – one that begins thousands of years ago with a single ancestral tongue.

While Wales contains the large majority of the Welsh language, its presence extends beyond its borders due to historical migration and cultural ties. Significant numbers of Welsh speakers can be found in …

In Welsh literature, the word Cymry was used throughout the Middle Ages to describe the Welsh, though the older, more generic term Brythoniaid continued to be used to describe any of the Britonnic …

Welsh is a member of the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family, closely related to Breton and Cornish. The roots of the Welsh language can be traced back to the Celtic languages spoken by …

Welsh is the earliest and best attested of the British languages. Although the material is fragmentary until the 12th century, the course of the language can be traced from the end of the 8th century.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Welsh language We answer all the questions you’ve been dying to ask about Welsh. Why so tongue-twisting? Why no vowels? And were you really …