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Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall
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A cornish speaker in 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WIKITONGUES-_Elizabeth_speaking_Cornish.webm
I keep trying to match it to any language that I know, and just draw a blank. Celtic dialects (which I think this is?) broke off about 300 years earlier from the main Indo-European branch than Germanic dialects did, and the divide is real.
I wonder if Irish/Scottish/Gaelic speakers can pick out anything
I don't mean to be rude but isn't Cornish an extinct language with only 400-500 modern native speakers? That said it is kind of dumb for them to put Welsh in Cornwall. Feels like they are digging themselves a hole. Though I do wonder if there are more Welsh speaking people in Cornwall then Cornish?
That's pretty much what she said in the video. I have mixed feelings about reviving languages that had been dead more than a century, as I get strange nationalist tingles at the back of my neck.
But if they're doing it for fun, then that's fine
There's some debate on when Cornish actually died out quite a few accounts well into the 1800s of fishermen speaking it here and there. Half the problem with Kernewek is poor written records towards the end of its decline.
True, and we may have lost immunity over the years so it could be dangerous
you lost me
Ah sorry I did not watch the video. Yeah fair enough. Maybe they can add a QR Code that links to a website about the language? Though I don't think many people would be super annoyed.
Those are from the Q-celtic branch. Cornish, Breton and Welsh are P-celtic. They are pretty different.
I enjoyed this video, it's funny because the Cornish accent is the same in Cornish as it is in English