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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