2025-06-07

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2025-06-07 02:10 pm

Welsh and Irish Swadesh lists

This conversation I had with [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith made me realise that I've never actually looked up a Swadesh list for Welsh before. I found this list on Wikipedia and before I started reading it I assumed that I would already know most of the words because I'm at a B2 level, but there were quite a few I didn't know! (In my defence, I only really use Welsh in an academic context)

I've based my list here off the Wikipedia list somewhat, although I have swapped some words for alternatives I'm more familiar with (these alternatives largely seem to be a dialectal difference).

I also looked at the Irish Swadesh list on Wikipedia to make my own.

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