Five Hundred - A story of the Cornish language
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- Kernowek, the native language of Cornwall, has been spoken in South West of England since the seventh century. By 1800 it was considered extinct. But in the last 20 years there has been a revival. Still only 500 people speak it. This is their story.
As a Kurd when i see this i been so happy. Protect your language. It is your honor
As a Jew I can only encourage you in your struggle to revive your leid, don't give up. Hebrew was a dead language and now it is spoken all over!
נדב חומסקי .Absulately . I love all languages and hope to become a linguist to preserve minority language in everywhere .But i respect more the people who revive their languages. You must learn totaly an new language, you must tell all the people who think that is useless , you must tell your people and others why it is important , you need many new words to create and also use, you must teach all the people and you need a strong identity to protect it
I sometimes wish that I had been born a member of a linguistic minority instead of being an English speaker
@@AlanRPaine why is that?
I'm learning Arabic right now and that's hard but once I've learned that god willing, my family are Cornish way back and I'll learn Cornish next.
"As the world becomes more homogenous, people start to seek unique identity....."
That be true.
That is so true, which is why we need to promote the production and preservation of healthy and valuable cultural uniqueness lest the masses turn to destructive means of asserting identity like we're seeing in the United States and Europe.
@@andrewcuda51 Communal identity is being destroyed by globalism and forced integration
@@theemptyatom Globalists have the cheek to pretend the world is becoming more diverse. The decline in numbers of languages disproves that.
@@thursoberwick1948 The Royal Family being German, The Romans were German in a way, theyve been here ever since,
@@clifftonicstudios7469 What's that got to do with what I just said?
I'm Scottish and have been properly learning Gaelic for a year now. I'm nowhere near fluent yet but I'm trying. Cornish sounds beautiful and ancient. I hope more people start to learn it soon! Meur ras!
Math sibhse. Tha mi'n dòchas gu bheil thu ag ionnsachadh fhathast.
@@thursoberwick1948 tha mi an dòchas cuideachd
Lol, in my language, meur means smelly, or stinky. Not sure what the proper English equivalent is, but you get the idea. Ras means breed, like which breed of dog you have. So you told people they're a smelly breed for some reason. Languages are weird.
Gaidhlig sounds fantastic, my favorite language. Revived Cornish sounds horrible, completely english. I speak breton and welsh. Latha math an-drasda
Fun fact: This statistic is out of date. The number of speakers of Cornish is now around 3,000 (although there are still very few native speakers, because there hasn't been much time for a generation to pass since the revival.)
I think by 500 speakers, they may well be counting only nativ speakers.
@MrNorthernSol yes it is there are 3000 speakers and 500 native speakers
@MrNorthernSol it's the number official and you and me How de could know if it's yes or no optimistic ?
@MrNorthernSol give me your source it's better that simple affirmations
@MrNorthernSol you re wrong search online and you will see
I was taken from cornwall as a child, all semblance of my language was beaten out of me so English kids could “better understand” I’m now 25 and planning to move back. I’ve dedicated the last few years to honouring my heritage and taking back what I lost. This video really moved me.
im from america and am learning my heritage and will be teaching this to my children
Youe heritage goes all the way back to Africa, brother. Don't be fooled.
Good for you very happy to hear you will carry on our language I can’t wait to learn
Don’t be fooled.
Don’t listen to this fool.
@@JackHernandezGentlemanJack hello rabbi
Suggestion regarding Cornish language and media: the very fact that a language that was thought to be extinct, is coming back; is fascinating and should be quite sensational, and hence an attractiv thing for media (including in English) to cover.
It wasn't thought to be extinct, it was completely extinct. The last native speaker died in 1777 and it had been dwindling in use for 500 years before that. To revive it, it had to be recreated from whatever meager sources existed. Since it died out before modern times, there were no words for anything invented after 1800. The revived Cornish is not the same as the language that died out in the 18th century.
we are a Cornish family wish we kept our language , we need to start using it again :) thank you
There's lots of ways to learn these days, most of them online too! I learnt in the last couple of years, I'm sure you can too :)
speak it and it shall live
I'm not Cornish, I'm from Plymouth however and I have Cornish family. It honestly fills me with great joy that there are people out there that are reclaiming their various Briton identities and seeking to rekindle it after centuries of genocide. People often think of the English identity's effect abroad but its effect domestically in Britain are pretty palpable and when people start reclaiming their community's, that's when real change starts to happen.
Long may the language continue to flourish. Do you ever team up with the Bretons of France ? Their native tongue is in many ways similar, they are after all cousins.
How pure is any language? Every language borrows words, constructions and expressions from other languages. What is important is that you use it and help it develop.
Welsh, Cernyweg (Cornish) and Llydaweg (Breton) are all Brythonic languages and very similar..
it;s basically Welsh. I understand what they are saying, I'm from Wales.
@@JackHernandezGentlemanJack It is indeed very, very similar to Welsh.
Frequently and often :)
I think we should all be taught it in school as Cornishmen, preserve our Celtic land!
Try Google. I've seen tutorials online.
Go Cornish, Say Something in Cornish, Kernewek Dre Lyther, lots of ways to learn these days!
Im learning it on memrise im not cornish but i like cornwall so why not
@@darius684 chons da hag oll an gwella!
One us, your brother Cymry in the north will return to our culture, yr hen ogledd should speak cumbraek,
As a native Welsh speaker I empathise.
I've eaten so many Cornish pies in my life, I perfectly understood that lords prayer in the beginning!!! Amazing!!
I am another random American who took an interest in this language after discovering in this order. It exists, it died out, it is being brought back. I want try my hand at learning it to help my part in keeping it alive.
it;s essentially just a dialect of Welsh. English people are not natives to Britian.
@@JackHernandezGentlemanJack sort of... it's some where between Welsh, Breton and English. Think Spanish and Italian. 😜. Check out kernoweklulyn.com
These guys offer online learning if you are interested 👍.
@@JackHernandezGentlemanJack The 'English' are, for the most part, native to Britain and I speak as an Irishman and in general, a supporter of the Irish language. The Anglosaxons (and for that matter, the Vikings) only came in relatively small numbers and then because of the status factor much of their culture diffused across England. Most of the English are on average 70% Celtic extraction and the closer you get to Wales, Scotland and l would assume Cornwall, the less the Anglosaxon DNA traces show up. It's again on average, 10% AS near the 'Celtic Fringe' and the highest is 50% on the East coast. The 'English' are basically Germanised Celts
@@JackHernandezGentlemanJack they had their ethnogenisis in Britian technically the celts migrated to britain as well
@@JackHernandezGentlemanJack
English people are native to Britain and exist nowhere else. According to the latest DNA results, across most of England the English are 90% Brythonic.
A Cornish speaker told me he understood Old Welsh,far better than he understood the modern variety!!
But both tongues are very similar and of course was once the same and was spoken from pen saints to Hadrian Wall.
I have so much respect for this Teacher. Bless her heart.
Listening to the Cornish language is like if I forgot all the words to the English language but still remembered what it was supposed to sound like. Its very interesting to me. I want to learn more!
A heart warming video and lovely to read such positive comments! I fell in love with The Cornish Language 40 years ago and studied it at university. As a Welshman I can recognise many words in Cornish although the grammar is different in many areas but Cornish and Breton have a greater affinity. I was lucky to live for 6 years in Brittany where I met Morwena Jenkin who I call the Super P Celt being fluent in Welsh, Breton and her native Cornish. That looks like a relative on the video actually. She inspired me more and I am so happy that this revival is happening hearing little children speak Cornish , it brings a tear to my eye. Cornwall is a region with a special status it is not just part of E gland. I hope I will get an opportunity to speak it again a f join something online. The P Celts ie The Welsh, Cornish and the Bretons need to stick together and join forces with the Q Celts ie The Manx, the Scottish and The Irish and even out
r friends in Cumbria who are descendants of Brittonic Language just The P Celts! The Welsh singer Gwenno sings beautifully Cornish and her albums are worth listening to. Long live Kernowek!
Our languages are sister languages. Cornish is indeed very close to Breton, even closer than Welsh. A wir galon
What a beautiful sounding language. I hope its the first language spoken on another world.
Cornish is a beautiful language and the revival of the language is incredible. Up until around the 12th century most counties and areas had their own Celtic language/dialect however Anglish (Middle English) Swept through most the country, much later in the 15th century there were plans to remove all non-English languages and by the 19th Century it was too late for revivals. Or so they thought
A Cornish language unit in Cornish schools should be the next main goal for activists.
I am English, but learning Welsh & I'm totally blown away by it. I recognise a lot of Cornish words which are similar to Welsh. Celtic languages are fascinating & beautiful. May they thrive & flourish!
I´ve shared this precious documentary on my two edublogs and on Facebook as well, thank you so much!
Holidays in Bretagne!
Brezhoneg is the nearest thing, but much influenced by French.
Anglais
I'm Breton and when I read or hear Cornish, I feel at home. Our two languages are very close. I would say two sister languages.
Very well done! Much love from the U.S.! ❤👍
Good luck Cornwall!
yes
When I learned that there was a Cornish language and heard the sound of it, I came to love it. It means so much to me that I named my colden colered cat "Howlek" he is Howlek an Gath. At least I speak West Country dialect. I be the singular Mester Jenkin' baint but one o' we.
I am from Cardiff a Welshmun and I besotted with kernow and I have been to your beautiful Cornwall for years on holiday in penzance and touring around kernow with German tourists but myself I am trying to learn your native cornish language slowly. As between Wales or cymru a has similar words to the cornish words. So please can you keep sending your video clips and any words via my phone would be appreciated thanks Colin from Cardiff/ Caerdydd
I’m a mixed race half Spanish American woman who’s Cornish side of the family emigrated in the 1600s, and I feel a bit hesitant about possibly being judged about learning Cornish, but I desperately want to. That and Irish Gaelic
Kitana Kojima its not Irish Gaelic its called the Irish language
No one would judge you.
You do realise spanish is white right? So you’re not mix race, you’re white
My Cornish lessons,currently held on Zoom, are attended by 1 person in America and some Australians who now get a separate lesson because of time differences. Go for it!
@@haltdieklappe7972 In Europe, yes. America thinks Hispanic is non-white. Just goes to prove racism is not logical.
Should have had everyone speak Cornish and subtitle it in English. I don't speak Cornish, nor do I have any Cornish ancestors, nor do I have any Cornish relatives, nor do I even know anybody who's Cornish, but I have been charmed by the language and I like hearing it spoken
Awesome my last name is true Cornish TREWIN !! Time to break free from England and become sovereign Cornwall and speak your language and revive your traditions 💪
Teacher Emilie has a name that looks French, but seems to speak with an accent from the Somerset/Devon area. How small a world can be.
In the 1960s I read how 85% of the people of Wales spoke Welsh, and in the 1990s I read how only 35% of them did. It's an uphill struggle.
It's not all doom and gloom. In the sixties, Welsh was under heavy attack, but now it has stabilised.
No 85 % of Welsh people did speak Welsh but that was before 1st ww that's when it declined. In the first world war 40 thousand Welsh men died but 25 thousand spoke Welsh as a result Welsh went down but in the last 10 years it actually flourished and now close to 40 % 700 thousand Welsh speakers and we have more Welsh schools than before. In west glamorgan we only had one Welsh comprehensive ysgol gyfun ystalyfera but now we have 5 so it looks pretty good for the language
I like cornish great.
www.skeulantavas.com/
“Kernowek... has been spoken in the South West of England since the seventh century.” Actually, Cornwall (Kernow) is not part of England. However, “South West of England” here isn't totally incorrect; Cornish (Kernowek, or Kernewek) was, up to a certain point, also spoken in Devon. (Do you Devonians self-identify with Cornish? Do you Devonians want to learn it also?)
I support minority languages such as Cornish; partly because such languages wer all-too-oft forcibly suppressed. Supporting and promoting such languages means saying no! to such bigotry and taking away of freedom of language. Also, linguist K. David Harrison has written at least two books building a case in favor of preserving linguistic diversity.
As someone that lives in Devon I've really wanted to learn Kernewek, through this lockdown I've decided to really try to learn as much as possible and integrate it into my life. I'm a student at university studying fine art and I find the language & etymology of the words I find here alongside the Devonshire accent incredibly similar and to be a really interesting source to surround my art with. The country is beautiful and losing our language would be a great shame.
****The comment above doesn't speak for all Devonians!
@MrNorthernSol Cornwall will NEVER be part of England, no matter how much you would like it to be so. We are not yours, we are not English.
@MrNorthernSol Your attitude is cold and dismissive. If people self-identify as Celtic there maybe is a reason which isn't predicated on you or your culture? I am Welsh but half my family is Northern English. Culture is only equal to "race" if you are ignorant of just about everything.
@MrNorthernSol Sorry only just read your reply to mine. I mostly agree with you! Also the Cornish revival started in late 19th century and began with a lot of then- fashionable racialist ideas which were shared by Henry Jenner in particular who talked of "Aryan" races as superior which is rather worrying. So there is something more contrived about Cornish as compared to the other Celtic traditions, I agree.
Cornish was indeed spoken in Devon. We have a number of local families/places with Cornish names in this area (South Hams) and the language was in use here extensively until the 14/15 th century (I believe) as the Bishop of Exeter issued a directive banning its use especially in church services.
I know nothing of any Celtic tongue.... but I knew everything of the Lord's Prayer they recited!
It was reconstructed using place names of Cornwall. Eg, "In St Earth as it is in Porthleven".
lovely film
lovely pasty
i might not speak Cornish but i'm pretty sure that what sounds like "Our Father" in Cornish at the beginning of this film, is just a list of Cornish place names with similar sounds to Our Father in English.
Not just Cornish but the English, esp in South western, western and north England should rediscover their Brythonic language. I saw some DNA research a few weeks ago that said that Germanic Anglo Saxon DNA in the English population drops from around 45% in the East to as low as 5% in the West. The Britons in what became England never went away but were changed culturally..
I live in Brittany now and love the culture and the rise of Breton usage.
As an English speaking American I find it easy to follow along with a reconstructed language like Cornish uses photo tactics from the English language
Makes it easier on the year to recognize what word begins in the word ends
At 5:00, the verbal of 1-6 is almost identical to Welsh, fascinating.
Or Breton.
The non gaelic Cetic languages are very similar like how Swedish and Danish can understand each other
Is that lady French, the one who is a Cornish teacher? That's brilliant. How exciting
She sounds french.
Breton?
I'm fairly sure that the Lord's Prayer at the beginning wasn't Cornish (Kernowek) but rather some kind of Cornish dialect of English. Here's the Lord's Prayer in Kernowek:
Agan Tas ni, eus y’n nev,
bennigys re bo dha hanow.
Re dheffo dha wlaskor,
Dha vodh re bo gwrys y’n nor kepar hag y’n nev.
Ro dhyn ni hedhyw agan bara pub dydh oll,
ha gav dhyn agan kammweyth
kepar dell evyn nyni
dhe’n re na eus ow kammwul er agan pynn ni;
ha na wra agan gorra yn temptashyon,
mes delyrv ni dhiworth drog.
Meulwers (Doxology):
Rag dhiso jy yw an wlaskor,
ha’n galloes ha’n gordhyans,
bys vykken ha bynari.
Amen.
Yes, it's because it's not the Lord's Prayer. It's a poem by Simon Parker, one of the interviewees of the piece. Kind regards!
@@car0Liita Thank you for the clarification.
There is some kind of bilingual folk-song at the very end. You should have put a link to that in the info!
Wish I had been given a chance to learn Cornish, even just a little bit.
@@TheKyleodgers Thanks for that.
There's still time. I know it is harder when you are older, but you can still support it by buying music in it or helping the nursery movement.
@@thursoberwick1948 Would appreciate a recommendation of decent music in Cornish. I have no idea of what's good.
@@MrTremewan It depends on your tastes. Gwenno has recorded some albums in Cornish and Welsh. She is a native speaker and sort of indy music I suppose.
There is tonnes of folk music but I'm not familiar with more recent recordings.
@@thursoberwick1948 Thanks. Just Listened to Gwenno singing in Cornish and am intrigued already. Will go on from here.
Fi's siarad cymraeg, ac fi'n diall beth mae'n weud. I understand what he's saying. Newedd means new. It's Welsh!!
Because the language essentially went extinct a lot of the words were forgotten and as welsh is the closest language to Cornish a lot of words were taken from your language to fill the gaps. I've heard some fluent Welsh speakers say they can understand about half of what a fluent Cornish speaker says.
The language is also a connection to the past
they need to get it on an app because nobody really wants to go to lessons
Word Tango has it as an option, but it's nothing that can compare to Duolingo or whatnot
@@l0os176 duolingo has not so many languages yet. It does not even have Finnish or many other official languages
@@KateeAngel True, but I think Duolingo would help create more Cornish language learners compared to other apps. It's huge!
Duolingo has welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic :) the Scottish Gaelic course is pretty shit though but the Irish and welsh ones are good
www.skeulantavas.com/ try this site 👍
Attempts to revive Cornish are nothing new. When I visited Cornwall in the 1970s, I was able to buy a Cornish phrase-book. The language was extinct for hundreds of years and had to be recreated from whatever sparse remnants survived. Many people in Cornwall have little or no Cornish heritage having come from other parts of the UK.
Great. Keep it going
I do not see why we cannot all learn a third language to keep our local languages and dialects alive. Ancient peoples could speak British, Latin, and Greek or Hebrew, or Arabic, so modern people can learn 2,3,4 languages, and use 1 locally, 1 on the phones, and 1 across UK, and another internationally. Many of us today are just too lazy, or do not realise what we are missing out on. Gaining opportunities to use language is a big problem, and we should encourage all opportunities possible.
I have subtitles on - the way it renders Cornish is hilarious!
This always amuses me I no loads off people off kernow, so proud off there county, and that's what it is not a country, but very few speak kernowak!😅😂
It sounds so old. A lot like the old British languages. I like it :)
That is because is IS linked to the British languages.
There are parts also of the person that wish not to cling to what gives a specious identity in a larger and more general world. They wish nothing to do with the world at all. They rise apart from it, stand against it, and both remake and destroy it where it is deemed appropriate. The language is not only a communication tool, or repository of culture and meaning. It is a person, and it is also a large part of human persons. The language has a life of its own and wants to live, whether people are up to the task or not. People are just like the blood cells and cultural institutions are just like organs, and the language is just like the soul and mind that wants to live through them, though they also claim lives of their own. Cornish and Welsh are very smooth and beautiful languages when spoken well, and very ancient, and deserve to live, no less as much as do English or German, French or Italian. So the many well-known and robust works of philosophy and poetry are mainly found in German and English. Is your best friend necessarily a well-known philosopher or poet? Perhaps your best friend is a cheeky rastler. He also wants to speak and live.
As a Cymro I always love to hear Kernyweg. I can usually get the gyst of what's said, but I can't seem to find anywhere online to learn properly. Does anybody have any advice on where to look?
The first of the three skeul an yeth books is free online, and there's lessons available from Kesva (Kernewek Dre Lyther) you can download
www.kesva.org/sites/default/files/documents/Skeul%20an%20Yeth%201.pdf
www.kesva.org/kdl
@@SkwithOv diolch yn fawr iawn:)
There is a website called the Cornish Store, they ship mostly everywhere, and they sell cornish books, clothing, and everything else really
Go Cornish, Say Something in Cornish, Kernewek Dre Lyther, lots of ways to learn these days!
Put skeul an tavas into google
Sgoinneil! Bha sin glè mhath 🏴
If only Cumbric was capable of being revived too
Let's use welsh. It is alive. No use trying to revive a dialect, that will not have radios, TV, dictionaries, grammars, Books...I use welsh instead of breton, and breton still has 200 000 speakers !
That Lord's Prayer at the beginning, whatever language that's in it doesn't sound like Cornish to me! What was it??
Sounds like English as modified by Dr. Seuss.
Is the revival genuine? I mean: are words and pronunciation "correct", i.e. are they as they were in the "old days"? Who knows more about this issue?
A lot of the pronunciations as exactly the same in Welsh - It's sister language - So presumably at least those must be correct
The revival is genuine. Various scholars from Morton Nance, Jenner, Nicholas Williams and others have done a lot of work on the vocabulary and grammar. It is close enough to Welsh and Breton and has some grammatical similarities with Irish, so we can be fairly sure. Debates rage as to precise pronunciation and idiom - some like Williams prefer to reconstruct medieval forms, others base their language on the last survivals around West Penwith and others prefer to reconstruct from what we know of other Brythonic languages. Standardised spelling has been adopted since 2013, but it's still early stages similar to the situation with Manx.
The revival is genuine. But as to whether the way it's spoken is genuine, who knows? We do have a lot of written Cornish from the old days
You could say the same about Israeli Hebrew. (Not wanting to go into the politics of the region!) It had its detractors but now it is spoken as a native language and no one gives a monkey's if it is completely authentic since millions now speak it.
They are pronouncing everything as if it's English, so I would say no it's not genuine, just arrogance and narcissism imo
Kernewek bys vyken 🤗
5:53 Freudian but true~there are more speakers of Klingon than Kernowek.
Did he say, "Thy will be done one earth as it is in Portland???"
Well done.
Keep up the fight for your identity.... Not the end all ne all but a sense of roots and belonging.... Keltic nations have suffered too much belittling while giving so much.... Time to stand up.!
Kernow is still here on this earth.
Language is a Identity of a nation or a continental😚😚😚🇹🇱✡
First time ive heard about this language
The South African accent definitely originated from here
American here: Was that guy NOT speaking the Lord's Prayer in Cornish, in the very opening of this video?
That was in the local English dialect of Cornwall
Does anyone know the names of these Cornish language metal bands, perchance?
Dewch a ni Cernyw!
I know insults in the kernowek language, that’s as much Cornish as I know lol
this video makes me wanna get my pasty out. good.
Thank you for this. What is that lovely song at the end?
can you fiddle with my pasty by the pasty brothers
Three Knights/An vug e'n Loor - Dalla
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What's the song @ 2:32?
Kerne Veur o veva !
Id like them to speak with a cornish accent not a queens english accent you know, like maria warnes ganfer could probably sound authentic
Cornwall, NEVER england!
Learn the language? www.skeulantavas.com/
Honours
I like what youre doing and good luck to you with it. But I think an important part of a language is the pronouciation and accent. The accents I hear sound like an English person trying to speak a foreign language. A lot of the people on this have south eastern English or estuary English accents. I doesnt sound authentic enough without the original accent. Im sure some of the original pronounciations are lost too.
Are Cornish and Welsh mutually intelligible ?
Not really
@@timflatus Thanks. I thought they might be because they are related
@@thomaszaccone3960 there are a lot of similarities in both vocabulary and sentence structure, partly due to the way Cornish has been reconstructed, but huge differences in idiom. For example "Good night" is the same in both "Nos da", but "Thank you" is "Meur ras" in Cornish and "Os gwelwch yn dda" in Welsh.
@@timflatus I live in Wharton, NJ.
It was a mining center in the 1800s. A lot of Cornish and Welsh people here. Mayor is Cornish. My wife is Cornish, Welsh and Irish. They still sell pasties here and they are quite tasty! They have a Cornish Society in Town
@@thomaszaccone3960 splann!
Which cornish words can be seen in the place names?
@@fp7026 could foi please tive me am exemple?
@@fp7026 could foi please give me am exemple?
@@fp7026 meur ras!
Words like Tre , Pen, and Pol, in fact almost every place-name in Cornwall. Don't ask me what they mean, I am English.
Tre- a farm/town; Pol- a pool; Pen - a head or headland; Lis/lys a palace or court; porth- a port; Nant/nans/nance - a valley.
All of these are really common, and can be seen in names like Penzance, Polperro, Tresco and Liskeard. Also very common in typical Cornish surnames like Trescowthick
How ironic that the video paying homage to an ancient language and culture is started by a prayer in the religion that was forced on them by their invaders and conquerers :/
ituraderodel
it the meaning of the words thats important too.
the new religion of islam is coming to force itself this time but their words are words of hatred and murder
celtic paganism
There are few if any places in the world that conquest has not influenced culture. While a tragic part of life, keeping or reopening old wounds will only continue the spiral of hate and loss. We are where we are now, for better or for worse. It is better to focus on building anew, than to lament what can not be.changed.
Those cultures that have been destroyed demand payment. I am sorry, but you can't conquer foreign lands rape the women kill the language and expect no consequences. Even if those in present day had nothing to do with it in the past.
The British became Christian before the Saxons, who were pagans,. arrived. What on earth are you flapping about?
idk why hearing the lords prayer in cornish made me laugh lol
what is the stupid send-up of the lord's prayer at the beginning? A joke I guess
hahahahahah! great. pasty
They stress how important this is, but they don’t link the songs used in the video -_-
With such amateurism, there is no hope.
They speak it with English country accents for good sake!
The only way forward is merger with Wales.
How would they merge with Wales? You know a lot of Welsh speak with English accents too? Only the Scots and Irish retain much of their own accents these days.
Celtic brother
It became extinct in 1800 so how do they know they're speaking i.e. pronunciating the language properly? How does a language become extinct anyway surely the people would speak it in private wouldn't they
I doubt that 500 people are completely fluent. Most probably only speak a few words.
So the amount of eople that speak it is less rhan your average secondary school? Is it relly a recognised language? 500 is nothing.
My A'th Kar :) x
Out of the ancient languages in Britain the only one thats survived is Welsh and Irish
unknown material
thats two languages and you forgot scots gaelic
and pasty
Unknown Material uh there’s a few actually, just a small amount of speakers left
There’s even people bringing back Manx
Why does cornish sound like the sims language
It doesn't.
yeghes da
All these so-called Cornish-speakers sounds like they're speaking some gibberish in an English accent rather than a different language. Cornish died 200 years ago. Whatever is spoken now is probably better understand as a constructed language, a kind of neo-Cornish by English-speakers who sound English and not Celtic when they speak it. A language needs unilingual native speakers to survive. This whole thing feels like clutching at straws.
At least Welsh remains a real and living language depending on native speakers. But this conlang neo-Cornish does not. Welsh-speakers do not sound English when they talk in Welsh. But neo-Cornish speakers do.
Most of them were Colonia black breed blood which are direct English descendants from Dùmnonia called as Damnation peoples (but they rejecting their own identity to invade another indigenous Cornish people surrounding Celtic Europe). Dùmnonia considered as pure formation of Anglican Britons.
Shouldn’t they be trilling there R?
No, most of them are impostor
But most of them were neighbors
Most of them had another identity called as Dùmnonians (Damnation)
Dùmnonia meant to be dominate another hegemony at behind the scenes, they destroy so many tribes in Cornwall itself like Méstís people whose bringing their own culture to Americas and Australia until Oceania but soon they missed in Antarctica and never go back to Europe,
Voliba (Valerian) sub-tribe from Land's End, ancient Argentinian is part of Cornwall sub-tribe, Brazîlian sub-tribe closely related to Indigenous Limburgers or Friso-Zealandic which is Nordic descendant around Cornwall.
All of Cornish subsets were blue eyed people which is Northern Atlantic phenotypes.
I've heard somewhere it's not trilled after vowels before consonants (so sequences like *art*, *berm*, *turn*, *mirth*, and *fort*)
But the non-trilled version may not have sounded totally like English
Why does it sound exactly like simlish tho??
Because they are pronouncing it as if it's English, so it sounds like random gibberish