02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 1 Prynhawn da Gymru Wyf yn cymryd eich bod wedi mwynhau eich cinio Ail-wefrwn y batris, gallwn fynd amdani!

02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 2 We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas

A view from the bridge Neil Kinnock, Welshman, European Commissioner for Administrative Reform and Linguistics in 2003: “it is a pity that Europe abandoned Latin as a common language of the intellectual and spiritual elite. “my mother got punished if she was caught speaking Welsh at school “the disappearance of Welsh is not the result of English imperialism. During the 19th century Irish newcomers learned Welsh. It was the idea of ​​ the people themselves that they had to learn English to make progress in the world. That has caused harm to the Welsh language. In recent years the situation is better than ever. The language is taught in schools and used on television 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 3

IE! globaleiddio NA! Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 402/07/2014

Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 5 The Power of Diversity

Citations from the European Treaties The Union shall respect the national identities of its Member States fully respecting the responsibility of the Member States for the content of teaching and the organisation of education systems and their cultural and linguistic diversity 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 6

Languages in Europe (2003) North of Caucasus, West of Ural Indo-European (147) – Albanian (4) – Armenian (2) – Baltic (3) – Celtic (7) – Germanic (58) – Greek (7) – Italic (48) – Slavic (18) Altaic/Turkish (17) Artificial language (3) Basque (3) Deaf sign language (31) North Caucasian (34) South Caucasian (3) Uralic/Finno-Ugric (30) Vatican sign lang. (1) Other (2) 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 7

Language diversity Causes of decline Death of speakers Repression by governments Insufficient government support Competition by dominant language Loss of language functions and domains ‘Globalisation’ 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 8

Multilingual Information Society (mid 1990s) An environment allowing citizens to fully exercise their linguistic and cultural rights pursuing personal, social and cultural user-friendliness 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 9

02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 10 The Power of Diversity Some other domains

The Force of Globalisation 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 11

My University lost in global market space 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 12

Number of master programmes taught in English, 10 European countries 02/07/ Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd

Glocalisation 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 14

The Force of Globalisation Other impacts 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 15

Back to the Future? Embrace the future extending your own paths through history Resist outside political dominance and stop the economic and cultural steamroller Awake peoples of the European lands, build a world enriched by your values 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 16

Melys Ffyrnig Ddraig Gwaredwr Sweet Fierce Dragon Saviour 02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 17

02/07/2014 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Caerdydd 18 To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea. opening lines Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas