Pam mae technoleg iaith Cymraeg yn bwysig? Why Welsh language technology matters.

1. Corporate slide master
With guidelines for corporate presentationsWelsh PPT template
The title slide of your Welsh language PowerPoint presentation should contain the Welsh
Government logo and Welsh URL address as positioned here on the red template areas.
Do not alter the size or position of these areas.
You are NOT REQUIRED to put th branding on subsequent slides in your presentation
Welsh Government
Pam mae technoleg
iaith Cymraeg yn
bwysig?
Why Welsh language
tech matters Gareth Morlais
ym Mhrifysgol De
Cymru / at South
Wales University
28/04/2016

2. http://www.meta-net.eu/whitepapers/press-release G Rehm, H Uszkoreit
Medi 2012

3. Georg Rehm META-NET

5. Categoriau eraill:
Machine Translation
Speech Processing
Text Analysis

7. Ieithoedd y Byd / World languages
• Hyd at 7,000 iaith yn y byd / Almost 7k langs
• 90% ohonyn nhw gyda llai na 100,000 siaradwr(aig) / 90%
with fewer than 100k speakers
• 832 iaith yn Papua New Guinea
• 260 iaith yn Ewrop / 260 European langs.
• 46 iaith gyda dim ond un siaradwr / 46 with just 1 speaker
(UNESCO, Infolang, BBC Languages)

8. Safle? Position?
• Wrth resti’r holl ieithoedd yn nhrefn nifer
siaradwyr, ble mae’r Gymraeg?
• Listing languages in order of number of speakers,
where’s Welsh?
7,000th- CY=??? – 2nd EN>700m - 1st Mandarin 960m
↔

9. Safle? Position?
• Wrth resti’r holl ieithoedd yn nhrefn nifer
siaradwyr, ble mae’r Gymraeg?
• Listing languages in order of number of speakers,
where’s Welsh?
7,000th- CY= – 2nd EN>700m - 1st Mandarin
960m
↔
166

11. iaith
rhyngwyneb
Twitter
interface
languages

12. iaith
rhyngwyneb
Twitter
interface
languages
48

14. iaith chwilio
Google
search langs

15. iaith chwilio
Google
search langs
46

17. Apple Siri
languages

18. Apple Siri
languages20

19. Niferoedd siaradwyr / No. of speakers
• Catalaneg 87fed (87th most spoken in the World)
• Galician 122
• Basgeg 159
• Llydaweg 193
• Cymraeg 166
• Gwyddeleg Iwerddon 172
• Gaeleg yr Alban 208
(Wikimedia)

20. Nifer erthyglau Wikipedia / # of articles
• Catalaneg 477k (17)(17th higest number of Wiki articles)
• Galician 125k (45)
• Basgeg 210k (35)
• Llydaweg 55k (72)
• Cymraeg 68k (64)
• Gwyddeleg Iwerddon 36k (85)
• Gaeleg yr Alban 13k (120)
(stats.wikimedia.org 09/15)

22. Cynllun Gweithredu Technoleg a
Chyfryngau Digidol Cymraeg
Welsh-language Technology and
Digital Media Action Plan
Marchnata a chodi
ymwybyddiaeth
Marketing and awareness raising
Ysgogi’r prif gwmnïau technoleg Motivating the main technology
companies
Ysgogi datblygiad o becynnau
meddalwedd a gwasanaethau
digidol Cymraeg newydd
Encouraging the development of
new Welsh-language software
applications and digital services
Ysgogi creu, rhannu a defnyddio
cynnwys digidol Cymraeg
Stimulating the creation, sharing
and consumption of Welsh-
language digital content
Cefnogi arfer da yn y sector
cyhoeddus, y sector preifat a’r
trydydd sector
Supporting good practice in the
public, private and third sectors

23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlXTJ7CUwXs

33. Corporate slide master
With guidelines for corporate presentationsWelsh PPT template
The title slide of your Welsh language PowerPoint presentation should contain the Welsh
Government logo and Welsh URL address as positioned here on the red template areas.
Do not alter the size or position of these areas.
You are NOT REQUIRED to put th branding on subsequent slides in your presentation
Welsh Government
Diolch | Thanks
Gareth Morlais
Ebrill-April 2016

34. Gareth Morlais Ebrill-April 2016
gareth.morlais@cymru.gsi.gov.uk
Cydnabyddiaeth:
Jeremy Evas (Prifysgol Caerdydd);
Georg Rehm (Meta-Net);
Delyth Prys a Dewi Bryn (Prifysgol Bangor)
Iwan Evans, Heledd Daniel a Gareth Cardew-Richardson,
Llywodraeth Cymru
Diolch
Thanks