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Cymrophone
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English
Etymology
From en Cymro- -phone.
Pronunciation
en
Adjective
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Welsh-speaking.
en Cambrophone
en 1998-02-19 RJones6901 soc.culture.welsh http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.welsh/msg/b22958e8c5986ab2 Re: Help please: Non-Welsh-speaking teaching posts in Wales? I'd like to put my bid forth as guessing Nigel is one of the "last of his kind" dyed in the wool Welsh Anglophone Conservative, almost as rare a beasty as his Cymrophone counterparts.
en 2002 Gruffudd ap Cynan and the Reality and Representation of Exile Exile in the Middle Ages 42 2503514537 C. P. Lewis The Tudor revival of interest in medieval Welsh history produced not only further manuscript copies of the Welsh Life, but also a retranslation into Latin for the benefit of non-Cymrophone scholars.
Noun
A speaker of the Welsh language.
en Cambrophone
en 0719058260 118 1999 Celtic Identity and the British Image Murray Pittock Three hundred years earlier, when 90 per cent of the population spoke the language, it and the identity it stood for was strongest 'in the rural counties of north and west Wales'. This essential structure had not changed, though the proportion of Cymrophones was much reduced [...]