0959e

A Treatise on the Chief Peculiarities that Distinguish the Cymraeg, as Spoken by the Inhabitants of Gwent and Morganwg Respectively.

AWDUR: Pererindodwr.
The Cambrian Journal, 1855-7

A Treatise on the Chief Peculiarities that Distinguish the Cymraeg, as Spoken by the Inhabitants of Gwent and Morganwg Respectively.

AUTHOR: Pererindodwr.
Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1856.
 

(ENGLISH)

0937

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

List of books and articles related to Y Wenhwÿseg, The Gwentian dialect.

(ENGLISH)

1243

Ble mà fa

("Where is he? [blee mää va]).
Play from the year 1913

AUTHOR: D.T. Davies

(WELSH)

0940k

Buchedd Gitto Gelli Deg yn yr wÿthnos gadw

("The life of Guto Gelli-deg in the ‘kept week’").
A criticism in the magazine Seren Gomer (1820) of the tendency of coal miners to be over-fond of beer

AUTHOR: Siencÿn ap Tydfil

(WELSH; ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

1388e

Colloquial Words and Expressions, collected within the parish of Llangynwyd. (History of Llangynwyd, 1888)
AUTHOR: Cadrawd (Thomas Christopher Evans 1846-1918). (IN ENGLISH)

(LLANGYNWYD, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)

(ENGLISH)

0967k

Cyfarfod Dirwestol a Dadl Gyhoeddus

(Temperance Meeting and Public Debate) 1842. Ystradowen, Y Bont-faen.
Gwentian speech to be seen now and then in this account written in standard Welsh. Interesting because Cwmowen would hardly be considered a Welsh-speaking area nowadays.

(WELSH)

0851k

Diarhebion Lleol Merthÿrtudful

("Local proverbs") Merthÿrtudful, 1894-7 Local proverbs and sayings collected by ‘Gwernyfed’ in the town of Merthÿrtudful and published in "Y Geninen" between 1894 and 1897.
 

(WELSH)

0980e

Euas ac Ergÿn

Welsh place names in Gwent-in-England 

(ENGLISH)

0926e

Features of the Gwentian dialect

Page in English showing how the Gwentian dialect differs from standard Welsh
cadair = chair, Gwentian catar;
Pen-coed (village name), Gwentian Pen-cood, etc 

(ENGLISH)

0935e

Geirfa Fach o’r Rhondda.

("Short Wordlist from the Rhondda"). Eighty words in Gwentian with an English translation, and phrases to show their use.
Year: 1914

(ENGLISH)

1387e

Geiriadur Gwenhwÿseg.

("Gwentian Dictionary") Our expanding dictionary of south-eastern Welsh

(WELSH AND ENGLISH)

0934k

Geiriau Lleol Canolbarth Morgannwg.

("Local Words from Central Morgannwg / Glamorgan").
Tarian y Gweithiwr, Mawrth 23, 1899
AUTHOR: Wmffra Huws.

(WELSH)

0924k

Gwareiddiad y Rhondda

("Civilisation in the Rhondda") - an article from 1897 deploring English criticisms of the Welsh people, and in particular the people of the Rhondda valley.
Written in a mixture of standard Welsh and south-eastern Welsh.

(WELSH; ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

1223k

Hanes Tonyrefail

(1899) The history of Tonyrefail before it became an industrial community
AUTHOR: Thomas Morgan, with an appendix by Owen Morgan (Morien)

In standard Welsh, but many instances of the spoken Welsh of Tonyrefail in quoting the words of the villagers

(WELSH; ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

1225k

Isaac Lewis, Y Crwÿdrÿn Digri

("Isaac Lewis, the Amusing Tramp") - short humorous tales in Gwentian from the early 1900s.
AUTHOR: Pelidros

(WELSH)

1390k

Magdalen
J. J. Williams
Poem in Rhondda dialect 1928

(WELSH)

2189k

Mari Lwÿd (1)

Verses in Gwentian from the town of Y Bont-faen (Cowbridge), 1922.

(VERSES IN WELSH, TEXT IN ENGLISH)

0975k

Mari Lwÿd (2)

The Christmastime ceremony with a horse’s head in south-east Wales.
An article from Tarian y Gweithiwr (1896? 1897?)

(WELSH; ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

0928k

Ni’n Doi. Dicÿn o Anas Dai a Finna a’r Ryfal.

(= Ni ein Dau. Tipÿn o Hanes Dai a Finnau a’r Rhyfel ). ("We two. Short Account of Dai and Myself in the War."). By Glynfab, 1918. The cover of the book states in south-eastern Welsh that it is intended "i gatw’r ên dafottiath yn fÿw" (standard Welsh: "i gadw’r hen dafodiaith yn fÿw" , i.e. "to keep the old dialect alive")

AUTHOR: Glynfab, 1918 (pseudonym = “son (of the) (Rhondda) valley”.

(WELSH)

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Nodweddion Cymráeg llafar Aber-dâr yn y flwÿddÿn 1902

("Features of the spoken Welsh of Aber-dâr in the year 1902.")
Written in standard Welsh, explaining the dialect of Aber-dâr, which is typical of south-eastern Welsh.

(WELSH; ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

0947e

Peculiar Welsh Words, Expressions, Proverbial Sayings, Rhymes, &c., collected in Mid-Glamorganshire.

Trafodaethau Urdd y Graddedigion, Prifysgol Cymru.
Transactions of the Guild of Graduates, University of Wales. 1906
AUTHOR: Cadrawd (Thomas Christopher Evans 1846-1918).

(WELSH AND ENGLISH)

0936k

Randibws Cendl

("The Religious Meetings in Cendl") (Cendl = ‘Beaufort’ in Blaenau Gwent).
Article from Y Punch Cymraeg 1860.

A mixture of south-eastern and standard Welsh.
AUTHOR:  Unknown.

(WELSH)

1270e

Tafodieithoedd Morgannwg

 Y Grail, Volume 4, No. 13 (1911).
Description of Gwentian and of where it is spoken

AUTHOR: T. Jones, Treherbert

(WELSH; ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

0939k

Tavodiaith Morganwg.

Ymgom rhwng dau farmwr {sic} (Shencyn Domos a Shon Matho) yn Nhghanolbarth Morganwg, ar ddÿdd marchnad.
("A conversation between two farmers (Shencyn Domos and Shon Matho) in central Morgannwg / Glamorgan)"
AUTHOR: Cadrawd (Thomas Christopher Evans 1846-1918).
Cyvaill {sic} yr Aelwÿd (name of magazine: "the friend of the hearth"), Cyfrol ("volume") 8, 1888. Tudalennau ("Pages") 61-2.

(WELSH; ENGLISH TRANSLATION)

0996e

The Gwentian Dialect.

A short description of words and expressions in Gwentian remembered by the author from his youth
Joseph A. Bradney, c.1895

(ENGLISH)

0948e

The Gwentian of the Future.

John Griffiths. In 1902 the author predicted that Gwentian would be the language of all South Wales in a hundred years’ time

(ENGLISH)

0951k

Tafodieithoedd Morgannwg
 
Y Grail, Volume 4, No. 13 (1911).

Beth yw'r Wenhwyseg ac ym mha le y siaredir.

AWDUR:  T. Jones, Ysgol y Cyngor, Dwn-rhefn, Treherbert

1232k

Tribannau Morgannwg

Verses from the Morgannwg (“Glamorgan”) region

(WELSH)

0931e

Wenhwÿseg, Y.

A 30-page booklet written by John Griffiths (Pentrevor) and published in 1901 by J. E. Southall (Casnewÿdd) indicating the main features of Gwentian; aimed at teachers of the language.

(BOOKLET IN ENGLISH)