Velsh

Current Month: Julwar 2nd: 209, The Fifth Age
Velsh or y Vymraeg is a Avonic language of the Veltic language family that is native to the Alberian people. Welsh is spoken natively in Alber, and by some in Avonland.   Vocabulary   Velsh supplements its core Avonic vocabulary (words such as wy "egg", carreg "stone"), with hundreds of word lemmas borrowed from Celestial, such as (ffenestr "window" < Celestial fenestra, gwin "wine" < Celestial vinum). It also borrows words from Avonic, such as (silff "shelf", giât "gate").   Phonology   The phonology of Velsh includes a number of sounds that do not occur in Avonic and are typologically rare in Tremalking languages. The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, the voiceless nasals [m̥], [n̥] and [ŋ̊], and the voiceless alveolar trill [r̥] are distinctive features of the Velsh language. Stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable in polysyllabic words, and the word-final unstressed syllable receives a higher pitch than the stressed syllable.   Orthography   Velsh is written in a Celestial alphabet of 29 letters, of which eight are digraphs treated as separate letters for collation.   In contrast to Avonic practice, "w" and "y" are considered vowel letters in Velsh along with "a", "e", "i", "o" and "u". The letter "j" was not used traditionally, but is now used in many everyday words borrowed from Avonic, like jam, jôc (joke) and starej (Storage).   The most common diacritic is the circumflex, which usually disambiguates long vowels, most often in the case of homographs, where the vowel is short in one word and long in the other: e.g. man ("place") vs mân ("fine, small").

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