in learning arabic it allowed me to pick up hebrew, and i can hear a few common words in hebrew - even tho the modern day hebrew is as mixed up with loan words and pronunciations as much as modern day arabic dialects like iraqy or moroccon..

however, the one common thing in the semetic languages and welsh seems to be the lack of vowels.. i mean iv never studied welsh but to the ear.. it sounds very similar… tab3an (ofcourse) not in the spoken method but.. in the fluidity of the spoken word.

i will be looking into a welsh god willing.

mahir

im welsh and im learning arabic! in welsh we greet each other with same basic word and the same sound with the same dilect as an arab saying how are you brother! amazing! not only that but when we say something is dirty its almost exactly the same word as they say it in arabic (i wont spell these words in english because the sounds cannot be pronounced) im really facinated by these links and the sounds in each of the languges, as far as im aware its only the celtic languages and arabic have these sounds in! im sure their are a lot more simularties in the language, but i dont know enough welsh or arabic to tell you! so im learning the two languages! but welsh is only a few thousound years old it shaped its language from gailec which is still around!

i have read in a few places as well as being told that arabs from yeman emigrated to mid europe around 15,000 years ago! and this is the origin of the celts! so its not that difficult to see why there are simularities in the sounds and some simular wordings! any more inforamtion on this topic would be much appreciated!

paul

Wales - well it is beautiful. But I’m not sure I like the accent. I’d like to know more about the Arabic link - Welsh is not related to Arabic, of course, the latter being a Semitic, rather than an Indo-European language. But there may be loan words.

We get hailstones pretty often here - you get light ones and heavy ones. They can hit pretty much any time of the year, including the middle of the summer (as happened a couple of years ago here in London - a hailstorm in July so severe that it damaged the roof panels on cars). They often come with storms, but not always.

One can only say ma shaa’ Allah.

Man, you sure know how to ruin someone’s weekend…

:-(

I never knew about a link until I met a Welsh Historian last year:

http://islamiblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/if-youre-ever-feeling-down-theres-only.html

Google ‘Ivor Wynne Jones’ and you’ll see more of his stuff.

There’s just something about water. Friends are always espousing the Lochs of Scotland, but I’ve yet to venture that far. My tip: seek out cottages in remote areas and go wandering in the car till you see something interesting. That’s what’s great about the countryside; no parking attendants!