Editing Welsh orthography (section)

== Foreign words ==

Welsh borrows a number of words from English.<ref>https://www.grin.com/document/58172</ref> Those words are spelled according to Welsh spelling conventions, for example: {{lang|cy|bws}} "[[bus]]", {{lang|cy|bwc}} "[[Wiktionary:buck|buck]]", {{lang|cy|bwced}} "[[bucket]]", {{lang|cy|car}} "[[car]]", {{lang|cy|nogin}} "[[Wiktionary:noggin|noggin]]", {{lang|cy|gob}} "[[Wiktionary:gob|gob]]", {{lang|cy|slogan}} "[[slogan]]", {{lang|cy|fflanel}} "[[flannel]]", {{lang|cy|trwnt}} "[[truant]]", and {{lang|cy|gêl/geol/jael/jêl/siêl}} "[[gaol]]".

=== Non-native letters in Welsh ===

The letter {{vr|j}} has only recently{{when|date=October 2024}} been accepted into Welsh orthography: for use in words borrowed from English which retain the {{IPA|/dʒ/}} sound, even when it originally was not represented by {{vr|j}} in [[English orthography]], as in {{lang|cy|garej}} ("garage"), {{lang|cy|jiráff}} ("giraffe"), and {{lang|cy|ffrij}} ("fridge"). Older borrowings of English words containing {{IPA|/dʒ/}} resulted in the sound being pronounced and spelled in various other ways, resulting in occasional [[doublet (linguistics)|doublet]]s such as {{lang|cy|Siapan}} and {{lang|cy|Japan}} ("[[Japan]]").{{efn|While the [[International Rugby Club]] uses the term "Siapan" in Welsh, sources such as Yr Atlas Cymraeg Newydd and the [[Welsh Wikipedia]] use the term "Japan".}}

The letters {{vr|k, q, v, x, z}} are not part of the Welsh Alphabet. However, these letters are used in foreign [[proper names]] and their derivatives: {{lang|cy|Kantaidd}}, {{lang|cy|Zwinglïaidd}}. They are also sometimes used in technical and other specialized terms, like ''kilogram'', ''queer'', ''volt'' and ''zero'', but in all cases can be, and often are, nativised: {{lang|cy|cilogram}}, {{lang|cy|cwiar}}, {{lang|cy|folt}} and {{lang|cy|sero}}.<ref>Thomas, Peter Wynn (1996) ''Gramadeg y Gymraeg.'' Cardiff: University of Wales Press: 757.</ref>