Sefyllfa beryglus i bobl Laos

Amrywiaeth ethnoieithyddol dan fygwth yn Laos:

Laos’ rich and complex linguistic mosaic is such that some minorities, so tiny that they occupy no more than a single valley, use a dialect dissimilar enough from their neighbors for it to be considered a distinctly separate language. Laos is a multiethnic society with an extraordinary range of cultural and social plurality within its porous borders. Its people have, for the sake of convenience and to imply a degree of largely absent national unity, been classified into four primary ethno-linguistic groups.

Ecosse neu Alba?

Atebion diddorol yn y Times i’r cwestiwn pam mae rhai Albanwyr yn defnyddio’r enw Ffrangeg am eu gwlad ar eu ceir.

Some Ecosse-users are converts from Alba. Fed up with being mistaken as English when abroad, they are even less keen on being taken for Albanians (no corresponding problem with Cymru).

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Helynt Anne Robinson, rhan 42,966

Mae heddlu Gogledd Cymru wedi holi Greg Dyke, cyfarwyddwr y BBC, ynglŷn â’i benderfyniad i ailddarlledu sylwadau plentynaidd o sarhaus Anne Robinson ar y rhaglen Saesneg, Room 101.

Now it is reported that the North Wales police are investigating whether the comments amount to incitement to racial hatred under the 1976 Race Relations Act.

Mae’n debyg bod Mr Dyke ar ei wyliau ar hyn o bryd, ond meddai fe o’i gite:

Welsh schmelsh, they’re all a bunch of paddies, aren’t they?

Neu ydw i’n meddwl o rywun arall?

A dyma ni

24 awr o weflogio, 72 o gofnodion, 17 o noddwyr, $182 i CYD, $100 Pyrads i mi (neu bwy bynnag sy’n gallu eu defnyddio).

Dw i wedi mwynhau’r profiad. Roedd hi’n wych cael cerdded rownd y cae yng nghanol nos, ac yn oriau man y bore, ac yn fendigedig cael siarad â Barbara a ffrindiau eraill.

Gaf i ddweud diolch yn fawr iawn i bawb sy wedi fy noddi, ac i’r criw yn America a drefnodd y holl beth, yn enwedig FrykittyCWTSH mawr iddi hi.

Yn ôla, hoffwn i ddiolch i’r criw Maesymorfa, i Helen am wneud cawl mor ffantastic, i Iona a Carys am eu holl waith paentio a sgwennu storïau a chywiro fy Nhymraeg warthus, ac i Philippa, jyst am bopeth.

There we are, folks, our first Blogathon. Thanks to everyone who sponsered me, who chatted with me, and who put up with me. See you again next year.

Remember: Siaradwch Cymraeg, ol ddy wei!

Awr i fynd…

ac mae’r amser wedi dal i fyny gyda fi. Dw i’n cael gwaith edrych ar y sgrîn, dw i ddim yn gallu ffeindio unrhywbeth o ddiddordeb ar y we, ac mae eisiau cwsg arna i.

Sabbatum

Black Sabbath yn Lladin. Cyhoeddir CD gan bumawd clasurol o ganeuon Sabbath mewn modd tra wahanol:

“If you take away the massive wall of sound from many Sabbath songs, what you have is pure 14th century music,” producer Mihkel Raud claimed Friday. “Really.”

Os wyt ti wedi clywed Apocalyptica charae Metallica ar bedwar cello, fydd hyn ddim yn swnio mor annhebygol.

The archetypal death metal band in the archetypal dead language. Oh, Lord, yeah.