Wednesday, January 9, 2013

WELSH songs and language

Driving home yesterday I was listening to CBC radio "As it Happens" (a very popular radio program from 6:30 to 8:00 pm - all over North America).

The lady host was talking about a Welsh town that for some dispute cannot play 3,000 Welsh songs in  the Welsh language.  To do with copyrights and the writers wanting more money for their songs. Well she wanted to play one Welsh song by a Welsh band, but as she said, "How do I know how to pronounce it, for the Welsh language uses no vowels. So I have called on one of our lady listeners in B.C. to pronounce it for you.....so here is what she said it was" And then you heard the lady speak. Obviously the lady was Welsh and new how to pronounce Welsh that uses no vowels.

Ah, many do not know this about Wales or the Welsh language. It is Wales that is known as "The Land of Song" - not Ireland, not England, not Scotland, but WALES!! Everyone sings in Wales.
I am Welsh, born in a little village called Crynant in South Wales. But the Hunt tribe is a mixture of Welsh and English - they came from the border of Wales and England, technically HUNT is Anglo-Saxon, one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon names on record.

Well my parents left South Wales when I was 5 years old, so I was educated in England.

So I do not speak Welsh, never got the chance to learn.

Now  the Welsh  have a lot of Jewish blood in them (but that is a whole other story) and are a nation of singing people. Why they have not become famous say like the Irish music, is because they sing in Welsh most of the time. They teach Welsh in the schools in Wales, to preserve the language that is at least 3,000 years old. Actually they have tea-towels in the Welsh shops that have the words on them "The oldest living language in Europe."  YES, Europe not Britain, but Europe.

NOW  ALSO  WHAT  MOST  DO  NOT  KNOW  IS  THAT  THE  WELSH  LANGUAGE  IS  CONNECTED  TO  HEBREW,  ANCIENT  HEWBREW THAT IS, WHICH  ALSO  USES  NO  VOWELS.  THE  HEWBREW  OF  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT  USES  NO  VOWELS.

SO  BOTH  THE  OLD   HEBREW (BEFORE  VOWELS  POINTS  WERE  ADDED)  AND  WELSH  HAVE  TO  BE  LEARNT  BY  SOUND.  SOMEONE  HAS  TO  SOUND  IT  OUT  TO  YOU,  HENCE  HANDED  DOWN  FROM  GENERATION  TO  GENERATION.

ON  THE  "HISTORY"  PART  OF  MY  WEBSITE  YOU  CAN  READ  ABOUT  THE  FIRST  SETTLERS  (THAT  CAME  TO  BRITAIN  AND  TOOK  ROOTS,  WAS  THE  JEWISH  TROJAN  BRUTUS  AND  HIS  PEOPLE  ABOUT  1100  B.C.)

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