Welsh - The Best Language In The World

[Qw3rtypop]

Isn't is just known colloquially as Llanfair?

[ddraigcymru]

Da iawn bachgen, Port Talbot ac Cymru am byth. Dw i'n byw y'n Margam,

[canudigitsuker]

welsh <3 the best

[Ann3shoes]

Despite the English trying to extinguish it, Welsh has survived, thank goodness (and I'm English).

[pysgodfach]

... and he mispronounced it anyway.

[TheGamonman]

Greeting from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, my hometown! It's not the name of the train station, it's the name of the village on the isle of Anglesey (Ynus Mon) in North Wales. :)

[JackGamer193]

@TheGamonman Ynys Mon*

[MissJaacobBlack]

Cymru am fucking byth bitches.

[TheMadMsHatter]

I've come to know Welsh as the language that looks like jibberish, and sounds like Elvish.

[WasLilChrisnowbigish]

@TheMadMsHatter

tolkiens LotR elves language is based on welsh and i think norwegian

[TheMadMsHatter]

@WasLilChrisnowbigish That's neat (: I suppose that makes sense, Elvish does sound very Welsh.

[Whitmojsherpa]

@WasLilChrisnowbigish He based the 2 elvish tongues on Welsh and Finnish, rather than Norweigan

[Lynnch1]

Its also called Llan.

[nwdle1]

can i have a ticket to llanfairpwllgwyng.. oh fuck iv missed my train

[WeegeeBawp]

@nwdle1 Tragic first world problems brought to you by the Welsh people.

[nwdle1]

@WeegeeBawp fuck it if wecan make life more awkward for people by givin them words they cant pronounce then im just gna sit back and lol

[Welshcornish]

@nwdle1 lol

[vouvray59]

@nwdle1 Nice one!

[PacifistPigeon]

I mashed down on my keyboard and invented Welsh. 

[welshforever95]

@PacifistPigeon Have respect Gael....

[lilyeve222]

I don't understand Welsh, but I really love their accents all the same!

[GodOfUnbelief]

I'll just call it 'Bob'

[AstroAnimation]

@GodOfUnbelief

we actually just call it Llanfair PG...

[WeegeeBawp]

@GodOfUnbelief I'd shorten it down to "phlegm".

[WeegeeBawp]

@GodOfUnbelief I'd shorten it down to "phlegm".

[WeegeeBawp]

@GodOfUnbelief I would just shorten it to phlegm.

[chwinc]

@WeegeeBawp you would wouldt you being an arrogant Englishman. mae pawb cymraeg methy diodda saeson balchus

[Qw3rtypop]

@chwinc

Purposefully using a language that someone else doesn't know just so that you can insult them? Wow, that doesn't make you look like a pretentious git at all.

[chaz141040]

It means Tossers

[ZeroDown88]

he pronounced it wrong.

[elbeghast]

...and in the US it would be shortened to Llanfair.

[Luic1987]

@elbeghast I live only a few miles from the town. We do do that actually, it's called LlanfairPG in colloquial conversation in english and Llanfairpwllgwyngyll if the convo is in welsh.

[quetzalel]

Ph´nglui mglw´nafh Cthulhu R´lyeh wgah´nagl fhtagn!!!!!

[baldurus1]

That's nothing.

The Finnish language has some really loooong words, like.

Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottor­iapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppila­s, which means jet engine mechanic cadet.

[fkjohann]

@baldurus1

0k.

[baldurus1]

@fkjohann Precis.

[DmSceneKid1]

I am welsh and proud:}

[houlmouth]

now i know why we speak english :/

[Supermassively]

I'm proud to be one of the half dozen or so Americans who can pronounce "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychw­yrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"­.

[alinvan]

My wife is Welsh,and her sing song accent was what attracted me to her in the first place,now it's driving me crazy,at least her mother no longer stays with us,

[amadeus5889]

I have Welsh ancestry, and in high school I became very interested in the Welsh language so I started speaking to native speakers online. One person I spoke to, who was living in London, learned it from his grandparents and said "it's like trying to spit your tongue out of your mouth". Now I know what he means.

[chamekke]

The Welsh language is gorgeous -- wish I could speak it! And of course it's pronounced exactly as it's spelled. You just need to understand the orthography <3

[liamsean98]

@chamekke if you lived in wales you wouldnt think that! i think our language is quite pointless :D

[tommymech]

@liamsean98

Most Welsh people in my experience (and I've lived all over Wales from North West Wales to North East Wales to Mid Wales to South West Wales to Eouth east Wales) think the language is very important and the parents are glad that their kids learn it in school.

Of course there are bound to be contrarians but you are very much in the minority.

The numbers of Welsh speakers is very much on then rise as well. The teaching of Welsh has been a huge success in recent times.

[ronaldinhollew]

@liamsean98 How the hell is it pointless?

It's a language that close to a million of us converse in every day. It's a language that has given us some of the most beautiful poetry ever written! It's a language that has formed our history, culture and identity. Even if you don't speak Welsh, I'm sure you live in a place whose name is Welsh. It's shaped our country for the last 2000 years!

[liamsean98]

@ronaldinhollew i guess its just me thinking its pointless then. i dont know why its pointless i just don't understand it, im from maesteg??

[ronaldinhollew]

@liamsean98 See, you're from a place called Maesteg (pretty field). It's all around us!

I hear a lot of people from the South-East say they don't see the point of the language, but it's played such a huge part in the history of your area. Plus, the language's growing down there. There are more Welsh-language schools opening in the South East than any other part of Wales, because people want their kids to speak the language of their country!

[iloveunclet1]

@ronaldinhollew :) And that's one reason I am currently studying it! You guys are so intriguing! I can't help but love your language :)

[Shannmeister]

@ronaldinhollew Hear hear, Cymru am byth!

[ec5aca]

Hey I have heard all the letters in the name. Does dim problem gyda fy achos dw i'n gallu siarad Cymraeg!

[FuroraCeltica]

I can actually say the name of that Welsh railway station

Cardiff

:)

[elton1981]

@FuroraCeltica That's Caerdydd :-P

[ChemicalAtTheDisco]

PROUD TO BE WELSH! <3

[peterfulish]

what i think welsh sounds like: fjsdaklfjjlvkxczlvjeiuwrqioucv­jxziovjixcojvioejwiroqjvcxzjo

what it actually sounds like : fsdahjvxcjzvuerhwuiqhuvichxuiv­huihuehwauvcxzj

[Irishlanguagevlog]

Think it's ridiculous to say we should spell all languages how they phonetically sound than English speaker. I think the Spanish speakers would have something to say about that. And the francophones. And the Chinese. And the Polish. And the Hungarians. Actually, probably everyone who doesn't speak English along with a fair few English speakers.

[chocolatedonut31]

@Irishlanguagevlog What? I don't think I understand you, but things aren't spelled "Englishly" they are spelled with the LATIN Alphabet.

[Irishlanguagevlog]

@chocolatedonut31 If you're going to be pedantic about it then actually they're spelled with the English alphabet, which is a type of Latin alphabet. But that's completely unrelated to anything I said anyway...

Someone suggested that the Welsh spelling system was flawed and that it should be changed to represent 'English' phonemes. I was pointing out that that's ridiculous since English has one of the most irregular orthographic systems ever. Whereas Welsh orthography is very regular.

[chica476]

sounds like irish.

[squirell1952]

now you know where hitler got his example from when he rounded up the jews, put them into a house of god and set fire to the synagogue. nazi tyranny equals english empire building.

note i say ENGLISH empire, not "british" empire. As for the French, spanish etc. with THEIR empires. what would have happened if WE IRISH had had an empire. OH, HOLY SHITE.

Well, we DID conquer parts of scotland, wales and cornwall - all celtic and pre-celtic cultures.

CHECK THAT ONE OUT, TOO!!

[squirell1952]

ACTUALLY, THEY RECKON RNGLISH ONE of the hardest lingos in the world to learn!!! Yet learn it we did. either that or be rounded up and herded into a whitewash cottage and burnt alive for speaking irish. IN WALES, PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY HANGED FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH. And to think God, according to the Church of England, appointed a murderer like Henry the 8th to spread the faith. Defender of the faith! a pope gave Henry that title. CHECK IT UP!!!

[Nasite]

@squirell1952 What utter bullshit. English is among the easiest languages to learn by far with relatively few useless arbitrary grammatical rules. It's also the only language on the planet that has neither Grammatical Genders or Numbers, which greatly simplifies a lot. As a non-native English speaker and foreigner I'd present the Q.E.D. that "they" are full of shit: Kids from non-English non-Imperial countries have loads of young children that understand it well auto-didactically.

[Tuigim]

@Nasite

Ye gotta be kiddin' me. Ye musn't have learned any other languages.

English is a killer with far more exceptions than rules.

A dreadful language with no logic in its system of sounds: hat and cat is mat is ok but what about tough /bough /cough / dough/ thorough/ tough/ through, heard/ beard/ meat /great/threat, here/there, dear/fear/ bear /pear, dose /rose /lose, goose /choose, cork / work, word /sword, do/ go?

Give me Spanish or Japanese any day! Far easier.

[Nasite]

@Tuigim Pronounciations change over time in all languages, so the only alternatives is to either continually change spellings (making any texts from a couple of generations back entirely unreadable to all future generations that aren't linguists) or simply accept that things won't be spelled exactly the way they're pronounced and get on with your life. I prefer the second. Chinese is an example of that in the extreme.

[Tuigim]

@Nasite

Or use a phonetic system.

[kokoshnetuna]

@Nasite No, Chinese is an example of a third alternative altogether: write everything in a logographic, semantically based script that does not directly have any bearing on the pronunciation of the glyphs in the script. Such scripts are not comparable with alphabets or abugidas/abjads at all.

[Nasite]

@Tuigim And as for "trying other languages": I'm Swedish, my family originates in French Belgium and I took it as my main 3rd language in School, in Gymnasiet I also took Russian for a few years and I casually study Japanese in my free time. I really don't think that's a fair accusation.

[Tuigim]

@Nasite

Whatever you know about other languages yer spouting rubbish here.

"t's also the only language on the planet that has neither Grammatical Genders or Numbers, which greatly simplifies a lot."

NO

And if you really studied Japanese you'd know that's one of the the many languages that has none.

[Nasite]

@Tuigim Nonsense. Japanese is one of the many Eastern languages that quite prominently displays a Grammatical Number. Take for examples "Three cats (Sambiki Neko)". One would simply write "San Neko" in English, but in Japanese they add a grammatical number for "Small animal", so it becomes "Three Small Animals; Cats". Same thing with "Nihon biiru". It becomes "Two thin objects; Beers". They serve no useful purpose other than by tradition. English does not require such additions.

[Tuigim]

@Nasite

They have no articles and so no gender and number required agreement as in many romance languages.

As for the counters, English is FAR more complicated:

a herd of cows, a flock of sheep, ascension of larks, barren of mules, bed of oysters, bevy of roebucks, bouquet of pheasant, brace of bucks, brood of chickens, building of rooks, bunch of bananas, bunch of grapes, business of ferrets, cast of hawks, charm of finches etc. The Japanese use three and then slip into 一つ、二つ、三つetc.

[Nasite]

@Tuigim None of which is required in English. They're all archaic and purely poetic these days. We can say "A clowder of cats", but it isn't a grammatical requirement and most such expressions are dying out with everyone thinking of "a group of cats/many cats/a bunch of cats/etc." being perfectly standard. There's no grammatical rule for poetic language. It's grammatically incorrect not to use suffixes like -piki to denote that it's a group of small animals. You're misunderstanding.

[Tuigim]

@Nasite

ti'n twpsyn y pentre

[Nasite]

@Tuigim Very mature. Just going to call me an idiot are you? Will no longer dignify your nonsense with replies.

[WeegeeBawp]

@Nasite Why bother responding anyways? Its not like anyone gives a fuck about comments. Its a useless feature.

[SuperBetty213]

@WeegeeBawp It is more than useless. The chance to ramble on any myriad of subjects is a curse if you have even a drop of Welsh magpie in you as i do. Too many shiny shiny subjects. Not that you should give a f*ck, my life would be far simpler if I did not always give such a f*ck, nevermore.

[WeegeeBawp]

@SuperBetty213 pot helps.

[SuperBetty213]

@WeegeeBawp I was told this once. Never leave the house on your 24th if you are welsh magpie if you believe this, especially not with a real black headed raven woman. She will sell you to her Gaijin friend from kindergarten. The sparkly distraction box is being sent to the corner, hope the neighbors don't mind me rearranging the flat tonight. The last impromptu will be set to the tune of Ren And Stympie, in honor of WeegeeBawp.

[OfficialRJLextro]

@Nasite I want the revival of Anglo saxon or the language spoken by the Celtic English before the invasion of the Anglos. Eccentric eh? I'm just bored of English...

[MuikuliWander]

@Nasite I suck at Swedish, but I'd still make the claim that it's an easier language than English to learn. It's easy to overestimate the easeness of English, because you hear it everywhere and it has become this sort of worldwide standard. I know native English speakers who would even argue that Finnish is in many ways simpler than English while it's for known as one of the more difficult languages in the world; mostly because it's not related to most other European languages.

[habbomanish]

@MuikuliWander I am a swede.

[Easyandy100]

@habbomanish I'm a carrot.

[Tuigim]

@Nasite

I'm sure you meant to write

ビールを二本、instead of Nihon biru which sounds like Japan beer.

[Tuigim]

@Nasite

Half the languages on the planet have no gender.

English used to have gender (hollow things were female - no kiddin')

Get out of country more and open yer mind more.

[Nasite]

@Tuigim I said NEITHER. Most languages have either of the two, but no living one has both simultaneously. Engliush is the only thing that has neither. What it "used to have" is not a valid objection. And what are you talking about? I specifically said I wasn't English nor do I live in an English country.

[kokoshnetuna]

@Nasite To quote you: what utter bullshit.

Japanese (and many other East Asian languages) do NOT have grammatical number—they have measure words or counters, which is an entirely different kettle of fish.

English, on the other hand, DOES have grammatical number. I don’t know how on earth you’d come to the conclusion that ‘cat/cats’ or ‘mouse/mice’ is not a representation of grammatical number.

And English grammar is riddled with useless, arbitrary rules and exceptions.

[squirell1952]

he played tony blair twice on film!! then he played david frost. be he didn't mimic either of them,. he PLAYED them. he acted. he is a celtic actor from the oldest country in great britain. if he is not from a welsh lingo part of wales, then his welsh lingo won't be perfect. he won't be speaking classical or professional welsh. so what? he is still welsh. AND A CELT!!

JAN-3-2012.

[squirell1952]

to helpl us understand welsh, why not use phonetic english spelllings on road signs? that way, we would know where we are going to! I mean, llanelli sounds just like lan elly instead of CLAN ETTLIE!! and llewellyn sounds like lou ellen instead of CLEW ELLYN which rhymes with Sue Ellen from Dallas!

PLEASE CONSIDER MY REQUEST FOR WHICH I THANK YOU.

SUN-JAN-1-2012.

[Irishlanguagevlog]

@squirell1952 Please consider changing English spelling to make it easier for all non-native speakers. Why is 'station' pronounced stay-shun and not stat-i-on? Why is 'cough' pronounced coff and nout cow-guh-huh?

All spelling systems look silly from the outside. But as a speaker of English and Gaeilge (and having learned Spanish, French and German for a long time in school) I can honestly say that English has more ridiculous exceptions to spelling rules than any language I know.

[Tuigim]

@Irishlanguagevlog

Sure but I'm all for a phonetic system too and the same for Irish too.

Why not? Whoever decided on such a complicated writing system to begin with was daft and hanging on to daftness makes no sense to me.

Taw mei tursoch den shafohd.

agus►ogus

as►os

ar►er

ag►eg

etc. led hul.

[kokoshnetuna]

@Tuigim Except that, for example, ‘agus’ and ‘as’ aren’t pronounced ‘ogus’ and ‘os’ everywhere. And keeping at least some parts of the complexity of the orthography gets rid of some of the complexity of the grammar. Otherwise ‘uh far’ in the genitive would be ‘an yiy’, which would be nonsense.

The orthography of Irish is only overly complicated now because of the history of Irish phonology. It was regular and straightforward when it arose.

[Tuigim]

@kokoshnetuna

1.Yeah and English isn't pronounced the same everywhere but there is standard spelling.

2.Re. "It was regular and straightforward when it arose."

That got my attention! Where can I find information on that?

[kokoshnetuna]

@Tuigim In any description of the pronunciation of Old Irish and Primitive Irish, basically.

Very few orthographies are born irregular and illogical (and if they are, it’s always because they’re borrowings of different writing systems ill-suited to represent the language in question). That comes with time and phonetic (d)evolution. :-)

[kotr2001]

What what what?:-\

[kotr2001]

?????????? o_O

[ponciau1]

Im proud to be welsh and can speak and write it fluently :D

[rowan729]

holy f*ck hehe :D lawlz I so wanna move to Wales (im American)

[dasteufelhund]

Let me adjust the tile, The Funniest Language in the World.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Damn I love that.

[morganpengwlad]

Actually, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy­rndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a name of a town in ynys Môn (Anglesey).

There used to be a train station with a longer name (until they changed the name to golf halt) called Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddog­leddollonpenrhynareirdraethcer­edigion!

[grooverheliboy]

@jackinthedam :>))))) you talk through experience then buddy or what ??

[grooverheliboy]

Put away your wellies and lock your sheep up..

[dtrez09]

wow he slowed it down a lot for the Americans. and they still found it impressive. easily please country!

[gwil95]

I live there

[sondano]

further evidence that humans are horrible at creating languages

[wemorris1001]

@sondano Welsh is a very poetic, beautiful language. He just can't speak it properly.

[welshiee97]

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerwylls­anteseilioggogogoch :) i live by there

[LubbliJubbli]

Mae'n gas gyda fi pel droed :) lol thats all i remember from high school but i probably got that wrong too.

[dtrez09]

@LubbliJubbli no that's right, and me too.

[CymroGoch]

Not exactly.

[freeman8128]

He mispronounced it: it is '...Llantisilio...', not '...Llantisilioch...'

[viperhalberd]

This guy's a legend. Who the hell is he? He looks like a welsh Tony Blair.

[WeegeeBawp]

@viperhalberd Michael sheen

[uke52]

@viperhalberd well he played tony blair in a film i believe apparently someone agrees with you

[StereOasis93]

@viperhalberd hes an actor, an amazing one aswell. watch unthinkable or the damned united :)

[veyronman]

@viperhalberd well he did play Tony Blair in a film...

[andyt2k]

@viperhalberd Ironically he's played Tony Blair

[askAminja]

@viperhalberd Michael sheen, who actually played Tony Blair in a movie

[n0tyham]

@viperhalberd - He played Tony Blair in the movies.

[J4K8123Productions]

@viperhalberd Thats funny actually he played tony blair in a film 

[Viciousfella]

@viperhalberd It's funny you should say that because he has played Tony Blair in several films :D

[JeanYodel]

I can say that :') rydw i'n caru cymraeg! Anhygoel ;)

[Gwenalltapowain]

Pay a wyr!!maen dodo Cymru yn enwog!!!

[SteveTwoTheO]

@j00jy OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT YOU JUST DIDN'T xD

[MentalBadger]

@j00jy bloody septic

[barnbersonol]

thats prob all he knows in welsh and he got that wrong ...FAIL! Still a bloody good and versatile actor, not a linguist tho

[48073419900127]

who's the guy being interviewed??

[nipz7]

@48073419900127 Michael Sheen. No relation to Charlie ;)

[closertofiftythanyew]

Mae trens dim yn stopio yn Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy­rndrobwllllandisiliogogogoch y ddyddiad hon nawr. Pasio straight through mae nhw nawr.

[xmargedx]

Mae'n bentref hefyd! Pwy yw hwnna?

[MrWelshwookie]

llangwirichgwindorescanasiliwc­hdougloch

[ShadowBowser64]

I hope the gibberish in the comments are welsh words saying how awesome this video is.

[SrMark1st]

luyg

[nipz7]

pwllgwyngyll