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Welsh, the language of Wales, is spoken by about 600,000 people, or less than 25 percent of the Welsh population. Like Gaelic, spoken in Ireland and parts of Scotland, it is one of the Celtic languages, which constitute one of the many branches of the Indo-European family. Celtic tribes entered Britain sometime after the 5th century B.C. The Anglo-Saxon invasions many centuries later drove the Welsh into the west, where they retained their Celtic speech and remained a distinctive people.
The Welsh call their country Cymru and their language Cymraeg. The alphabet lacks the letters j, k, q, x, and z, while a number of other consonants are pronounced quite differently from the English. The letter w is a vowel, pronounced u as in "put," thus giving rise to such words as gwr (man) and bwyd (food). Ch is pronounced as in German (e.g., chwaer-sister). The letter f is pronounced v (nef-heaven), the f sound rendered by ff (ceffyl-horse). Two special Welsh letters are the dd, pronounced as a voiced th (dydd-day), and 11, pronounced approximately thl. The latter appears at the beginning of many Welsh city names such as Llandudno, Llangollen, and Llanfyllin. Welsh towns bear some of the most picturesque names of any in the world. A few examples are Betws-y-Coed, Penrhyndeudraeth, and Pent-bont-rhyd-y-beddau.
威尔士语在以下国家使用: （大不列颠）联合王国, 威尔士.
Language Family  Family: Indo-European
Subgroup: Celtic
Branch: Brythonic
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Kenneth Katzner,
世界的语言, 由Routledge出版。
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Why are ravenous beasts allowed
To trample the tender grapes?
Why must sweet flowers
Fail in the great drought?
Send the healing showers
To increase the vine shoots,
A healing shower of the first rain
And another of the latter rain.
Pitch thy tent in the land of Goshen,
Come thyself, Lord, to abide there,
Descend from the bright heights,
Make thy dwelling among men.
Abide in Zion, remain there,
Whither the tribes go up,
Do not ever abandon thy people
Even to the annihilation of the world.
—WILLIAM WILLIAMS PANTYCELYN
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