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Welsh English
| Welsh English | |
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| Native to | United Kingdom |
| Region | Wales |
| Ethnicity | Welsh people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 2.5 million[citation needed]) |
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| Dialects | |
| Latin (English alphabet) | |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
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Welsh English (Welsh: Saesneg Gymreig) comprises the dialects of English spoken by Welsh people. The dialects are significantly influenced by Welsh grammar and often include words derived from Welsh. In addition to the distinctive words and grammar, a variety of accents are found across Wales, including those of North Wales, the Cardiff dialect, the South Wales Valleys and West Wales.
While other accents and dialects from England have affected those of English in Wales, especially in the east of the country, influence has moved in both directions, those in the west have been more heavily influenced by the Welsh language, those in north-east Wales and parts of the North Wales coastline it have been influenced by Northwestern English, and those in the mid-east and the south-east Wales (composing the South Wales Valleys) have been influenced by West Country and West Midlands English,[1][2] and the one from Cardiff have been influenced by Midlands, West Country, and Hiberno-English.[3]
A colloquial portmanteau word for Welsh English is Wenglish. It has been in use since 1985.[4]
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- ^ Rhodri Clark (27 March 2007). "Revealed: the wide range of Welsh accents". Wales Online. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ "Secret behind our Welsh accents discovered". Wales Online. 7 June 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ Carney, Rachel (16 December 2010). "A Cardiff Story: A migrant city". The Guardian Cardiff. Cardiff. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ^ Lambert, James (2018). "A multitude of "lishes"". English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English. 39: 1–33. doi:10.1075/eww.00001.lam.
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