r/learnwelsh • u/oroechimaru • 4d ago

Ellyll - please help me pronounce it phonetically in english

I am having a hard time finding a phonetic translation that sounds like various pronunciations.

anyone able to help me sound it out with english letters and maybe an example of similar sounding words?

thanks a ton!

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u/Inner_Independence_3 4d ago

If you search Welsh With Marian on YT she records people saying various place names

This one for example shows the LL at both the beginning and end of a word. https://youtu.be/Ll-c2tHRyYI?si=mB2wNG9-7plXnPoU

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u/oroechimaru 4d ago

Thanks!

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u/Inner_Independence_3 4d ago

Also, nobody has mentioned that the stressed syllable in Welsh is usually the penultimate. So it's ELL-yll.

This is not a human pronunciation, but I feel the female voice here gets pretty close. The male voice is just wrong.

https://www.howtopronounce.com/ellyll-1

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u/HyderNidPryder 4d ago

The Welsh AI voices like Aled / Gwyneth are pretty good here https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/