Welsh - Walesgo

Japanese: ウェールズ語 - うぇーるずご
Welsh - Walesgo

It is a Celtic language of the Britannic family, spoken in Wales, west of England. It has a population of over 500,000. It has a long history, and has endured the pressure of English since the second half of the 5th century. In the early days, it had extremely complex inflections, but by the 8th century, it had already become more simplified than the contemporary Gaelic (Irish). However, its characteristics, such as initial consonant changes, inflected prepositions, and VSO (verb-subject-object) word order, have remained almost unchanged to this day.

[Toshio Doi]

[Reference] | Celtic languages

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

イングランドの西、ウェールズで話されているブリタニック語系ケルト語の一つ。使用人口50万余。その歴史は古く、5世紀後半以来、英語の圧迫に耐えて根強く存続してきた。初期にはきわめて複雑な語形変化をもっていたが、8世紀のころにはすでに同時代のゲーリック語(アイルランド語)よりも簡易化が進んでいた。しかし語頭の子音変化、屈折前置詞、VSO(動詞―主語―目的語)の語順などの特徴は今日もほとんど変わっていない。

[土居敏雄]

[参照項目] | ケルト語派

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