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  1. Cornish ( Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek; [8] [kəɾˈnuːək]) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. Along with Welsh and Breton, Cornish is descended from the Common Brittonic language spoken throughout much of Great Britain before the English language came to dominate.

    • History of Cornish
    • Last Speakers
    • Revival
    • Current Status
    • Names of The Language
    • Relationship to Other Languages
    • Pronunciation
    • Consonant Mutations
    • Sample Text
    • Sample Videos in and About Cornish

    Cornish started to diverge from Welsh towards the end of the 7th century AD and the earliest known examples of written Cornish date from the end of the 9th century AD. These were in the form of glosses scribbled in the margins of a Latin text - Smaragdus' Commentary on Donatus. They were originally thought to be in Old Breton, but Prof. J. Loth sho...

    Dorothy or Dolly Pentreath (1692-1777) is known as the last fluent, native speaker of Cornish. She claimed that she spoke nothing but Cornish until she was 20, although it is not certain whether this was true. She was a native speaker of Cornish, and was known to swear fluently in the language. Whether she spoke Cornish fluently later in life is di...

    Henry Jenner (1848-1934) was the first person to try to revive the language. His interest was sparked by the discovery of a number of lines from a medieval Cornish play in a 14th century manuscript in the British Museum. Jenner spent many years travelling all over Cornwall interviewing Cornish speakers, learning Cornish from them and studying any C...

    There are currently an estimated 3,000 speakers of Cornish, 2,000 of whom claim fluency, according to a survey commissioned by the Cornish Language Strategy project in 2008. In the 2011 UK census 600 people in England and Wales declared Cornish as their main language: 500 in Cornwall, and the rest elsewhere [source]. Some families are now bringing ...

    There are several different versions of revived Cornish, each of has a different name. Here is a summary: 1. Kernewek Uny[e]s = Unified Cornish - developed by Robert Morton Nance in the 1930s 2. Curnoack Nowedga - Modern Cornish - developed in the early 1980s by Richard Gendall 3. Kernewek Kemmyn = Common Cornish - developed by Ken George in 1986 4...

    Cornish is closely related to Breton, and mutually intelligible with it, to some extent. It is also closely related to Welsh, though there is only limited mutually intelligibility between them. Cornish is more distantly related to Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. 1. A comparison of the six modern Celtic languages 2. Celtic cognates - words that are...

    Notes

    1. Vowels are short before a double consonant, or before any two consonants 2. Some vowels become a schwa [ə] in unstressed syllables

    There are four different ways initial consonants can mutate in Cornish. 1. Before unrounded vowels (i, y, e, a), l, and r + unrounded vowel. 2. Before rounded vowels (o, u), and r + rounded vowel. Download alphabet charts for Cornish(Excel) [top]

    Yma pub den genys frank hag equal yn dynyta hag yn gwyryow. Ymons y enduys gans reson ha keskans hag y tal dhedhans omdhon an eyl orth y gela yn sperys a vredereth.

    Information about Cornish | Phrases | Numbers: Revived Cornish, Middle Cornish | Colours | Family words | Terms of endearment | Colours | Time | Weather words | Comparison of Celtic languages | Celtic cognates | Celtiadur | Tower of Babel | My podcast about Cornish | Learning materials [top]

  2. El córnico o cornuallés es una lengua celta britónica, antiguamente hablada en el condado británico de Cornualles (en inglés, Cornwall; en córnico, Kernow) y actualmente en proceso de revitalización . Historia. El córnico aparece hacia el 33 d. C. como resultado del desarrollo independiente del dialecto sudoccidental britónico tardío.

    • 3500 aprox. (como segunda lengua)
  3. 2 de abr. de 2024 · Cornish language, a member of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. Spoken in Cornwall in southwestern Britain, it became extinct in the 18th or early 19th century as a result of displacement by English but was revived in the 20th century. Cornish is most closely related to Breton, the Celtic language of Brittany in northwestern France.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. Cornish is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. Along with Welsh and Breton, Cornish is descended from the Common Brittonic language spoken throughout much of Great Britain before the English language came to dominate.