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Originally Posted by Aled

I lived with a guy from Cornwall last year, he could speak a little Kernow

That would be Kernowek (Cornish). Kernow means Cornwall.

and I could even understand a bit of it (me being a native welsh speaker). He told me about the independance movement down there and about MK Meybon Kernow which translates to (i think) sons of cornwall.

That would be Mebyon Kernow. I believe that it means something like Assembly or Party for Cornwall, but don't quote me on this one.

Mebyon Kernow is not a movement for the independence of Cornwall, but for decentralization and greater autonomy.

The only problem youve got is that there are 0.5 Million in Cornwall but only 300 people who can speak the Language to a fluent degree.

The Cornish language was officially deceased in 1906 when the last native speaker died. What you have today is a revival of the language with different proposal of the ortography and phonology.

On the upside it is now being taught in primary schools. Language isn;t the be-all and end all, but if you compare Scotland for instance, they were incorporated in 1707 but still got to keep a fair few bits of their establishment and importantly their Law. Contrast this with the Welsh who in 1282 got annexed by the English and we lost everything (nearly) we lost our legal system and sentenced to hundreds of years as second class citizens enslaved by the English. There was one thing they couldn't take away from us, and that was the Language, but we nearly lost that, and what saved it was a simple book you may have heard of it, the bible which was translated by William Morgan in 1588.

The problem is that being Left and Nationalist is a gross contradiction. Nationalism is (must be) based on ethnic premises, not merely on language. Language can be an element of cohesion, but it is not even absolutely necessary for Nationalism to be. Consider the case of Ireland where the Gaelic language is still far from being spoken by the majority of the Irish.

Another comment about Cornwall, is the incidence that has on Cornwall the current non European immigration in England. This has provoked an ongoing migration of Anglo-Saxon English to areas less polluted by the non European immigration. In turn, this creates an augment of a population with an English/British allegiance in detriment of the Cornish autoctonous population.

Now, the only possible proposal that a Left-minded policies could propose here to be consistent with their political nature, would be that the English learned the Cornish language. Without a vast majority of autoctonous Cornish population, this is a forced artificiality.