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Cornish language revival

Index Cornish language revival

The Cornish language revival (lit) is an ongoing process to revive the use of the Cornish language of Cornwall, United Kingdom. [1]

23 relations: Antiquarian, Breton language, Celtic Revival, Cornish language, Cornish Language Partnership, Cornwall, Cussel an Tavas Kernuak, Gorsedh Kernow, Henry Jenner, Ken George, Kernewek Kemmyn, Kernowek Standard, Kesva an Taves Kernewek, Language death, Last speaker of the Cornish language, Modern Cornish, Nicholas Williams, Phonemic orthography, Richard Gendall, Robert Morton Nance, Standard Written Form, Unified Cornish, Welsh language.

Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin: antiquarius, meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Breton language

Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Brittany.

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Celtic Revival

The Celtic Revival (also referred to as the Celtic Twilight or Celtomania) was a variety of movements and trends in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture.

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Cornish language

Cornish (Kernowek) is a revived language that became extinct as a first language in the late 18th century.

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Cornish Language Partnership

The Cornish Language Partnership (Keskowethyans an Taves Kernewek) is a representative body that was set up in Cornwall, England, UK in 2005 to promote and develop the use of the Cornish language.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Cussel an Tavas Kernuak

Cussel an Tavas Kernuak (Cornish Language Council) is an organisation promoting the revival of the Cornish language, in Cornwall, England, UK, and is represented on the Cornish Language Partnership.

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Gorsedh Kernow

Gorsedh Kernow (Cornish Gorsedd) is a non-political Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall.

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Henry Jenner

Henry Jenner (8 August 1848 – 8 May 1934) was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival.

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Ken George

Kenneth "Ken" J. George, is a British oceanographer, poet, and linguist noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, an orthography for the Cornish language which he claims is more faithful to Middle Cornish phonology than its precursor (Unified Cornish).

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Kernewek Kemmyn

Kernewek Kemmyn (Common Cornish or "KK") is a variety of the revived Cornish language.

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Kernowek Standard

Kernowek Standard (KS, Standard Cornish), its initial version spelt Kernowak Standard, is a variety of revived Cornish.

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Kesva an Taves Kernewek

Kesva an Taves Kernewek (Cornish for Cornish Language Board) is an organisation that promotes the Cornish language.

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Language death

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.

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Last speaker of the Cornish language

In the 18th and 19th centuries, there was academic interest in finding the last native speaker of the Cornish language.

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Modern Cornish

Modern Cornish (Kernuack Nowedga) is a variety of the revived Cornish language.

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Nicholas Williams

Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams (born October 1942 in Walthamstow, Essex, now London, UK), writing as Nicholas Williams or sometimes N.J.A. Williams, is a leading expert on the Cornish language.

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Phonemic orthography

In linguistics, a phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (significant spoken sounds) of the language.

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Richard Gendall

Richard Gendall was a British expert on the Cornish language, born in 1924, died September 2017 aged 93 He was the founder of "Modern Cornish"/Curnoack Nowedga, which split off during the 1980s.

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Robert Morton Nance

Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959) was a leading authority on the Cornish language, nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society.

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Standard Written Form

The Standard Written Form or SWF (Furv Skrifys Savonek) of the Cornish language is an orthography standard that is designed to "provide public bodies and the educational system with a universally acceptable, inclusive, and neutral orthography".

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Unified Cornish

Unified Cornish (UC) (Kernewek Unys, KU) is a variety of the Cornish language of the Cornish revival.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_language_revival

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