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Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

True, and we may have lost immunity over the years so it could be dangerous

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

you lost me

[-] me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

I wonder if Irish/Scottish/Gaelic speakers can pick out anything

Those are from the Q-celtic branch. Cornish, Breton and Welsh are P-celtic. They are pretty different.

[-] ns1@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

I enjoyed this video, it's funny because the Cornish accent is the same in Cornish as it is in English

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

Never mind that, what is 'coated poultry'? A chicken in a puffer jacket?

[-] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Breaded, battered, things like Kievs? Like the background of the sign?

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