cisono Posted 6 October 2006 Posted 6 October 2006 Little. Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr, Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tan, A'r gath wedi sgrapo Jonni bach! You'll have us all typing in Welsh soon!!!
Guest Posted 6 October 2006 Posted 6 October 2006 Little. Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr, Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tan, A'r gath wedi sgrapo Jonni bach! And they say that the Welsh are miserable?
Finnegan Posted 6 October 2006 Posted 6 October 2006 Haha. Welsh pub songs are brilliant, really. They make so little sense. Sosban Fach's the club song of Llanelli Scarlets (hence the username) but the chorus is literally about a sauspan boiling on the floor. There's others, including songs about jackdaws with hats and wooden legs, stood on a roof.
Guest Posted 6 October 2006 Posted 6 October 2006 But seriously, I intend to learn Welsh before I die.
Finnegan Posted 6 October 2006 Posted 6 October 2006 Everyone should. It's the original Breton language!
Daggers Posted 6 October 2006 Posted 6 October 2006 Everyone should. It's the original Breton language! Who are these Breton's? Not more of these bloody damn illegals, creeping into the country thanks to Blair! I wish someone like the Daily Mail would start a campaign or something!
cisono Posted 6 October 2006 Posted 6 October 2006 Everyone should. It's the original Breton language! Please remind me what family of languages Welsh belongs to?
stez Posted 7 October 2006 Posted 7 October 2006 Please remind me what family of languages Welsh belongs to? The language belongs to the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family. Closely related languages are Cornish and Breton. More distant relations are Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx. they manage to get the insults of the english in english in north wales though. well done lads
cisono Posted 7 October 2006 Posted 7 October 2006 I need an Indo-European tree... Here it is: Welsh is part of the Celtic - Brythonic branch... (right)
stez Posted 7 October 2006 Posted 7 October 2006 Here it is: Welsh is part of the Celtic - Brythonic branch... (right) english developed alongside cows? WTF?!
Finnegan Posted 7 October 2006 Posted 7 October 2006 There you go, answered your own question. Wikipedia's usually your friend.
cisono Posted 7 October 2006 Posted 7 October 2006 There you go, answered your own question. Wikipedia's usually your friend. Yeah, wikipedia is usually good. In this case, I really needed a graphical representation though... Latin, Germanic and Celtic are the main branches among (Centum) Indo-European Languages.
Finnegan Posted 7 October 2006 Posted 7 October 2006 Tutonic, Latin and Celtic? The Celtic languages themselves are split, mind. The two most well known here are the Bythonic languages (that's Welsh, Kernowek [Cornish, which is basically Welsh with 'K's], Breton, Cumbric, etc) and Goidelic languages (Gaelic, both Irish and Scots, Manx, etc.) The Gaulish and Celtiberian Celtic language groups are all on the continent somewhere, people see the Celtic Nations as pretty much the UK sans England, but in truth Celtic culture spreads for leagues.
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