WELSH

Welsh - Cymraeg - belongs to the Brythonic branch of Celtic language; closely akin to Breton and Cornish, it is used by more than half a million people in Wales. It is written since the 7th or even the 6th century, making it one of the earliest modern tongues in Europe. Tolkien wrote in the essay English and Welsh published in the collection The Monsters and the Critics that he specially liked the sound of Welsh, and this language provided the chief inspiration for the branch of his invented languages that yielded Sindarin.

Ein Tad - Pater noster

Henffych well Mair - Ave Maria

Gogoniant i'r Tad - Gloria Patri

Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed (extract) - Pwyll prince of Dyfed, beginning of the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, a collection of tales in Middle Welsh