{"id":421,"date":"2007-06-21T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/treiglad\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T17:15:40","slug":"treiglad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; treiglad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <em>treiglad<\/em> (pl. <em>treigladau<\/em>)\u00a0is the Welsh word for mutation, the process of changing the initial consonants of words &#8211;\u00a0something we were practising in class today. This is a characteristic of all the Celtic languages and takes quite a bit of getting used to.<\/p>\n<p>The most common mutation in Welsh is the soft mutation or <em>treiglad meddal<\/em>, which changes t to d, p to b, c to g, and so on. It&#8217;s quite hard to keep track of all the occasions when this mutation is needed, but I think I&#8217;m getting better at it. I haven&#8217;t tried to memorise all the rules because there are so many of them. Instead I notice where mutations are used in the Welsh texts I read and when I hear Welsh spoken. This gives me a good feel for when to use them.<\/p>\n<p>If you practise reading and listening to\u00a0a language as much as possible, you get a lot of exposure to grammatical patterns like mutations. This helps you to develop\u00a0instincts for the grammar and\u00a0seems to me to be the best way to learn it. I think this method works better than trying to memorise all the grammatical rules first. Once you have developed a feel for how a language works, then learning the rules might be helpful and certainly will be easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, treiglad (pl. treigladau)\u00a0is the Welsh word for mutation, the process of changing the initial consonants of words &#8211;\u00a0something we were practising in class today. This is a characteristic of all the Celtic languages and takes quite a bit of getting used to. The most common mutation in Welsh is the soft mutation or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}