Cymrophone

English

Etymology

From Cymro- +‎ -phone.

Adjective

Cymrophone (comparative more Cymrophone, superlative most Cymrophone)

1. Welsh-speaking.

   Synonym: Cambrophone

   • 1998 February 19, RJones6901, “Re: Help please: Non-Welsh-speaking teaching posts in Wales?”, in soc.culture.welsh‎^[1] (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2002, C. P. Lewis, “Gruffudd ap Cynan and the Reality and Representation of Exile”, in Exile in the Middle Ages, →ISBN, page 42:

     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

Cymrophone (plural Cymrophones)

1. A speaker of the Welsh language.
   • 1999, Murray Pittock, Celtic Identity and the British Image, →ISBN, page 118:

     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 [...]