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Prynhawn da Gymru

Wyf yn cymryd eich bod wedi mwynhau eich cinio

Ail-wefrwn y batris, gallwn fynd amdani!

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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

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IE! globaleiddio NA!

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The Power of Diversity

Citations from the European Treaties

The Union shall respect the national identities of its Member States

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....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

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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)

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Language diversityCauses of decline

• Death of speakers

• Repression by governments

• Insufficient government support

• Competition by dominant language

• Loss of language functions and domains

• ‘Globalisation’

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Multilingual Information Society(mid 1990s)

An environment allowing citizens to fully exercise their

linguistic and cultural rights

pursuing personal, social and cultural user-friendliness

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The Power of Diversity

Some other domains

The Force of Globalisation

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My University

lost in global market space

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Number of master programmes taught in English,

10 European countries

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Glocalisation

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The Force of Globalisation

Other impacts

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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

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Melys Ffyrnig Ddraig GwaredwrSweet Fierce Dragon Saviour

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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