Welsh grammar reflects the patterns of linguistic structure that permeate the use of the

Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it h ...

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linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...

grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes doma ...

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syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituenc ...

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semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and comput ...

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

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phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

. The following articles contain more information on Welsh: * Welsh syntax * Colloquial Welsh morphology (the patterns that shape the spoken language as it is used by present-day Welsh speakers.) ** Colloquial Welsh adjectives (the rules governing the use of adjectives in modern colloquial Welsh as used by first-language Welsh speakers in Wales.) ** Colloquial Welsh nouns (the rules governing the use of nouns and noun-phrases in modern colloquial Welsh as used by first-language Welsh speakers in Wales.) ** Colloquial Welsh prepositions (the rules governing the use of prepositions in modern colloquial Welsh as used by first-language Welsh speakers in Wales.) * Literary Welsh morphology (the rules governing the use of the formal written language, normally corresponding to older, historical patterns.) * Welsh phonology

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