Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-04-20 | Page 2 | The Welsh Language

alie via VI 1 the quite erroneous idea that welsh Is a language of consonants probably arises from the number 0 ws it contains according to a welshman in tho london news W in la gen always between two con pure vowel bounded like 00 oo in english thus awin 1 pronounced lioom with boom what Is really one of the most remarkable features about the welsh Is the number of vowels which can come together in english three vow ela in succession are not often met with in welsh it Is not uncommon to find four or altce g lu governor here each of the alvo vowels Is pronounced separately in rapid succession here are tour lines consisting entirely of vowels made by goronwy owen in the eight benth century ol 01 wy a 1 i 0 la al e lyt al 0 au wa al au 1 tl wa wewt A