Editing Welsh orthography (section)

{{Short description|Rules for writing the Welsh language}}
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'''Welsh orthography''' uses 29 [[letter (alphabet)|letter]]s (including eight [[digraph (orthography)|digraph]]s) of the [[Latin script]] to write native [[Welsh language|Welsh]] words as well as established loanwords.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/gramadeg/gramadeg1.html|title=Yr Wyddor Gymraeg/The Welsh Alphabet|access-date=4 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru/english/Part%203/10%20Locales%20alphabets%20and%20character%20sets/10.2%20Alphabets/Pages/10-2-Alphabets.aspx|title=Alphabets|access-date=30 May 2017}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto; width: 50em; text-align: center; border-collapse:collapse;"
! style="background: #efefef; font-weight: normal;" colspan="29" | '''[[Capital letters|Majuscule forms]]''' (also called '''uppercase''' or '''capital letters''')
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| [[A]] || [[B]] || [[C]] || [[Ch (digraph)|CH]] || [[D]] || [[Dd (digraph)|DD]] || [[E]] || [[F]] || [[Ff (digraph)|FF]] || [[G]] || [[Ng (digraph)|NG]] || [[H]] || [[I]] || [[J]] || [[L]] || [[Ll (digraph)|LL]] || [[M]] || [[N]] || [[O]] || [[P]] || [[Ph (digraph)|PH]] || [[R]] || [[Rh (digraph)|RH]] || [[S]] || [[T]] || [[Th (digraph)|TH]] || [[U]] || [[W]] || [[Y]]
|-
! style="background: #efefef; font-weight: normal;" colspan="29" | [[Titlecase]] forms
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| A || B || C || Ch || D || Dd || E || F || Ff || G || Ng || H || I || J || L || Ll || M || N || O || P || Ph || R || Rh || S || T || Th || U || W || Y
|-
! style="background: #efefef; font-weight: normal;" colspan="29" | '''[[Lower case|Minuscule forms]]''' (also called '''lowercase''' or '''small letters''')
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| a || b || c || ch || d || dd || e || f || ff || g || ng || h || i || j || l || ll || m || n || o || p || ph || r || rh || s || t || th || u || w || y
|}

Welsh [[orthography]] makes use of multiple [[diacritic]]s, which are primarily used on vowels, namely the [[acute accent]] ({{lang|cy|acen ddyrchafedig}}), the [[grave accent]] ({{lang|cy|acen ddisgynedig}}), the [[circumflex]] ({{lang|cy|acen grom}}, {{lang|cy|to bach}}, or {{lang|cy|hirnod}}) and the [[diaeresis (diacritic)|diaeresis]] ({{lang|cy|didolnod}}). They are considered variants of their base letter, i.e. they are not [[alphabetisation|alphabetised]] separately. The Welsh alphabet also lacks {{vr|[[K]]}} ({{lang|cy|ce}}, {{IPA|cy|keː|}}), {{vr|[[Q]]}} ({{lang|cy|ciw}}, {{IPA|cy|kɪu̯|}}), {{vr|[[V]]}} ({{lang|cy|fi}}, {{IPA|cy|viː|}}), {{vr|[[X]]}} ({{lang|cy|ecs}}, {{IPA|cy|ɛks|}}), and {{vr|[[Z]]}} ({{lang|cy|sèd}}, {{IPA|cy|sɛd|}}/{{IPA|cy|zɛd|}}).<ref>https://www.chelmsfordwelsh.org.uk/alphabet.html#:~:text=The%20letters%20J%2C%20K%2C%20Q,%2C%20ph%2C%20rh%20and%20th.</ref>