Welsh phonology

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The phonology of Welsh is characterised by a number of sounds that do not occur in English and are rare in European languages, such as the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ] and several voiceless sonorants (nasals and liquids). Welsh has a stress accent, which usually falls on the penultimate syllable in polysyllabic words. A notable characteristic of Welsh is the three kinds of consonant mutations (soft, nasal, and aspirate) which affect the beginnings of words and which are also found internally within compound words. Welsh also has vowel mutations, usually occurring when a word is extended by a suffix (including certain suffixes which were formerly pronounced but are now lost).