Cymraeg a mathematig

Sa i’n cofio os ydw i wedi blogio’r stori hon o’r blaen, ond mae’n debyg bod siarad Cymraeg yn helpu plant gyda mathemateg:

While “ten”, “twenty” and “thirty” in English tell us little about their relative value, the Welsh names do. “Deg”, “Dau Ddeg” and “Tri deg”, indicate “ten”, “two-ten” and “three-ten”, in the same way that “Tri deg dau” (32) and “un deg tri” (13) explain their values through their names. To learn the names of numbers in Welsh, you have to learn the numbers for one to ten and the rules for combining them.

Posibilrwydd arall, wrth gwrs, yw bod addysg dwyieithog yn helpu plant yn gyffredinol gan ddatblygu eu sgiliau deongliadol. Dw i ddim yn gwybod: beth wyt ti’n feddwl?

Orthograffi ieithoedd America

Darn bach yn Linesandsplines sy’n sôn am orthograffi ieithoedd brodorol America:

If I remember right, many writing systems were imposed on tribes by European missionaries, mostly in the nineteenth century. Bringhurst said that the mid-1800s were the heyday for devising new alphabets (novel sets of symbols, not new fonts) and so the Native American languages provided many opportunities for this sort of stuff.

Lego a’r Maori

Stori diddorol o’r BBC am ymdrechion cwmni teganau Lego i atal trychineb cysylltiadau cyhoeddus. Yn eu gêm uwch-dechnoleg newydd, Bionicle, mae Lego wedi dwyn enwau Polynesaidd (gan gynnwys Tohunga, sy’n golygu iachäwr brodorol) am eu harwyr robotaidd plastig.

Maen nhw’n cael eu herio gan Maui Solomon, cyfreithwr sy’n arbenigo mewn hawliau eiddio deallusol ac hawliau a rhwymedigaethau pobl brodorol.

Ieithoedd Brodorol yn Arizona

Dysgu Ieithoedd Brodorol – gwefan o Brifysgol Gogledd Arizona i’r rhai sy gyda diddordeb mewn ieithoedd brodorol. Llwyth o ddolenni diddorol ac erthyglau fel hyn sy’n sôn am diwylliant a chymuned Hopi:

…language instruction is a community effort; it cannot be left to the formal teachers alone. Hopi must be spoken in the homes, kivas, plazas and all other public places. Children must have a reason to speak it and everyone must be involved.

via rhestr postio ELL