Welsh maps and place names

Welsh General / Questions
#1

Shwmae pawb!

When I lived in Spain I found the easiest way to learn the names of countries and cities was to get maps in Spanish. I have decided I want to do the same for Welsh, ideally a world map and one of Wales with all the place names in Welsh.
I have so far had no luck in finding any such map, does any one know of any where to purchase maps such as this?

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#2

I can’t help, but it occurs to me that schools teaching through the medium of Welsh may need such maps, so school suppliers in Wales may be able to help???

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#4

Just a warning: If you use any Add Blocker such as “ADP” be aware of this:

You can enable in add blocker for adds to be displayed or alternatively shut the add blokcer down. But “ADP” (Add Blocker Plus) is designed so that you can enable or disable the plugin so it’s easy to determine in it what it can “leave through” and what not.

Pob lwc!

EDIT
Now that I’ve disabled ADP on this site - @Flynn this might be even better then purchasing the map! It’s free adds or you can get a subscription to have this without adds, the choice is yours! :slight_smile:

Well, but I didn’t try to play. I don’t dare to go with that game yet. :slight_smile:

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#5

You can disable ABP for a single page. I didn’t notice an ad on this page, to be honest.

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#6

I did that for that page.

Here’s the add:

#7

Yeah. I didn’t notice it.
Funny how they think people who use ad blockers might be tempted to click on ads if only they could be persuaded to look at them.
No. And no again. I use an ad blocker because I have no interest in ads. I don’t want to look at them and I will not click on them if I do see them. Ever.

#8

The same or REALLY rearly.

#9

That looks like an interesting way of learning country names, though would be nice to have something physical about the house, it would also help to add Welsh to more places in my life than in front of the computer screen haha

#10

Well it’s not a map but it’s about adding Cymraeg to more places in your life …

Welsh On The Wall Poster by Y Lolfa!

I have one of those on the door of my “computer” room. :slight_smile:

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#11

Some of the road maps have names of larger towns in Welsh and English.

#12

I have an Ordnance Survey map of Wales, it has the whole country on one sheet (all on one side so if you fold it out you can see the whole country in one view) It is fully bilingual as far as I can tell, it is mainly the larger towns and cities that have the bilingual names, many of the smaller places are in Welsh only and a few only in English (but that maybe because some smaller places only have one name?)

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#13

Does anyone know when Cymraeg started calling what was Armorica when Macsen Wledig passed through and a lot of Romano-Brits arrived, Llydaw? I can understand why it became Brittany, but Llydaw???

#14

Thank you for all the ideas. I like the OS map, finally managed to find one for under ÂŁ1,000 haha.
@tatjana this has given me the idea to start printing off some things and sticking them on the walls. I think pictures with the welsh words on the walls would help me learn new vocabulary without spending time specifically learning them :slight_smile:

#15

I’m glad you’ve got ideas from my (sometimes silly) post(s). And I agree with you. You’ll have easier time to learn new vocabulary. :slight_smile:

#16

It seems to come from an alternative early name for it, “Letavia”. But then there is the question of where that comes from! You’re pretty much into guesses there, educated or otherwise. Interesting idea is that it is a really old name related to coastline (like Armorica), and that perhaps the “llyn llydaw” of Snowdonia means “the lake of the lakeside settlement” where the Llydaw there referred firstly to a lakeside (ie coastline) settlement.
It’s also similar to the name of a Celtic Goddess (but the Celts had no shortage of those!:blush:)

Edit- the lack of any obvious derivation for it probably led to the story in the Mabinogion (Breuddwyd Macsen) of it being derived from “led-taw”, “half-silent”.

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#17

Almost exclusively. No-one else really had them, either. Strange. :wink:

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#18

There’s a Welsh atlas available here: http://www.gwales.com/bibliographic/?isbn=9781908574718&tsid=4

There are a few other atlases as well - search for “atlas Cymraeg” on Gwales and you’ll find a few new ones, and Atlas Cymraeg Newydd is still available second hand on Amazon.

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#19

Maybe not the greatest place, but I used these guys for my educational/school posters for my house.

https://www.chartmedia.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=welsh

the link ‘should’ take you to the results page for a ‘welsh’ search.

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#20

thanks for all the help everyone :slight_smile:

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