Language code: cy
Technical information about ISO 639 language code cy
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The table below provides technical details for the Welsh language, designated by the cy code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Welsh Native Cymraeg |
| Family | Celtic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern WelshSouthern Welsh |
| Related languages | BretonCornish |
| Key facts | Earliest surviving Welsh poetry dates from around the 6th centuryThe language marks grammatical relationships through initial consonant mutationsTraditional numbers employ a vigesimal (base-20) counting systemWelsh has two grammatical genders (masculine and feminine)The modern Welsh alphabet has 29 letters, including distinctive digraphs such as "dd", "ll" and "rh" |
| Sample phrase | Helo, sut wyt ti? |
| Character encodings | |
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Welsh belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Celtic subgroup. It is officially used in Wales (United Kingdom) and is recognized as a minority language in Argentina, particularly in Chubut Province. Welsh is written using the Latin script and the Welsh alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 800,000 speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
Speakers
540K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Welsh speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
cy-GB – Welsh (United Kingdom)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ