Editing Welsh language (section)

===Examples of sentences in literary and colloquial Welsh===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! English
! Literary Welsh
! Colloquial Welsh
|-
| I get up early every day.
| {{lang|cy|Codaf yn gynnar bob dydd}}.
| {{lang|cy|Dw i'n codi'n gynnar bob dydd}}. (North)<br />{{lang|cy|Rwy'n codi'n gynnar bob dydd}}. (South)
|-
| I'll get up early tomorrow.
| {{lang|cy|Codaf yn gynnar yfory.}}
| {{lang|cy|Mi goda i'n gynnar fory.}} (North)<br />{{lang|cy|Wna i godi'n gynnar fory.}} (South)
|-
| He had not stood there long.
| {{lang|cy|Ni safasai yno yn hir}}.<!-- About "safasai", see: --><ref>{{Cite book|title=234 Welsh Verbs: Standard Literary Forms | first=Kathryn |last=Klingebiel |year=1994 |place=[[Belmont, Massachusetts|Belmont]], Massachusetts |publisher=Ford & Bailie |isbn=978-0-926689-04-6 |page=223}}</ref>
| {{lang|cy|Doedd o ddim wedi sefyll yno'n hir}}. (North)<br />{{lang|cy|(D)ôdd e ddim wedi sefyll yna'n hir}}. (South)
|-
| They'll sleep only when there's a need.
| {{lang|cy|Ni chysgant ond pan fo angen}}.
| {{lang|cy|Fyddan nhw'n cysgu ddim ond pan fydd angen}}.
|}

The differences between dialects of modern spoken Welsh pale into insignificance compared to the difference between some forms of the spoken language and the most formal constructions of the literary language. The latter is considerably more conservative and is the language used in [[Welsh Bible|Welsh translations]] of the [[Bible]], amongst other things – although the 2004 {{langnf|cy|Beibl Cymraeg Newydd|''New Welsh Bible''|links=no}} is significantly less formal than the traditional 1588 Bible. Gareth King, author of a popular Welsh grammar, observes, "The difference between these two is much greater than between the virtually identical colloquial and literary forms of English."<ref>{{cite book|last=King |first=Gareth |title=Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=[[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon]] |edition=3rd |year=2016 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0DY-CgAAQBAJ&q=Modern%20Welsh%3A%20A%20Comprehensive%20Grammar&pg=PR3 |isbn=978-1-138-82629-8 |page=3}}</ref> A grammar of Literary Welsh can be found in ''A Grammar of Welsh'' by Stephen J. Williams<ref>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Stephen J |year=1980 |title=A Welsh Grammar |publisher=[[University of Wales Press]] |location=[[Cardiff]] |isbn=978-0-7083-0735-9}}</ref> or more completely in {{lang|cy|Gramadeg y Gymraeg}} by Peter Wynn Thomas.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Peter Wynn |year=1996 |title= Gramadeg y Gymraeg |publisher=[[University of Wales Press]] |location=[[Cardiff]] |isbn=978-0-7083-1345-9}}</ref> (No comprehensive grammar of formal literary Welsh exists in English.) An English-language guide to colloquial Welsh forms and register and dialect differences is {{lang|cy|Dweud Eich Dweud}} by Ceri Jones.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Ceri |year=2013 |title=Dweud Eich Dweud: A Guide to Colloquial and Idiomatic Welsh |publisher=[[Gomer Press]] |location=[[Llandysul]] |isbn=978-1-84851-748-6}}</ref>