Talk:Elder Speech/@comment-78.123.112.136-20150728064447/@comment-2.100.61.164-20170109130820

Your Welsh speaker has arrived!

Gwyn Bleidd - Blaidd Gwyn in Welsh - means White Wolf

Caed dhu - I'm assuming it's from coed - Coed ddu - Black trees (Probably would sound nicer as something like Black Forest or Blackwoods. Both work.) It's worth pointing out that the Witcher series uses 'dh' a lot in place of 'dd' (possibly more Gaelic) but both would be pronounced as a hard 'th' sound, like in the words 'the', 'there', 'this' etc. So coed ddu sounds like "coyd thee".

Bretonic, Cornish and Welsh are all very similar languages, so we all kinda have that common understanding which is nice! But yeah, there's a ton of stuff from the game based on Celtic, and speaking Welsh, I found that I could understand 60-70% of the Elder Speech letters and subtitles...

But the way the voice actors pronounced the words got on my damn nerves! Way to break the immersion for anyone who understands the language :P