WELSH ENGLISH

· is comprises the dialects of English spoken by Welsh people.

· Accents and dialects in the west of Wales have been more heavily influenced by the Welsh language while dialects in the east have been influenced more by dialects in England.

· In Wales English dominates over Welsh in urban areas, in the west and north-west of the country the balance being in favour of Welsh, where English is learnt at schools as a second language.

· However, Welsh English at the level of educated speech and writing is not much different from that of English English. Most differences are found at the level of more localized dialects.

· The principal phonological differences between WE and RP (received pronunciation) are the following:

- Invowels

- In consonants

· Aside from lexical borrowings from Welsh like bach (little, wee), eisteddfod, nain and taid (grandmother and grandfather respectively), there exist distinctive grammatical conventions in vernacular Welsh English.

Examples of this include the use by some speakers of the tag question isn't it? regardless of the form of the preceding statement and the placement of the subject and the verb after the predicate for emphasis, e. g. Fed up, I am or Running on Friday, he is. ^[15]

· In South Wales the word where may often be expanded to where to, as in the question, " Where to is your Mam? ". The word butty (Welsh: byti, probably related to " buddy) is used to mean " friend" or " mate.

· There is no standard variety of English that is specific to Wales, but such features are readily recognised by Anglophones from the rest of the UK as being from Wales, including the (actually rarely used) phrase look you which is a translation of a Welsh language tag. ^[15]

More:

https: //www. youtube. com/watch? time_continue=2& v=3gbptsVFVTI& feature=emb_logo& ab_channel=KoreanBilly – The most popular Welsh words

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