Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: The Celtic Languages - Live or Die?
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Originally Posted by Marulus
Last time I read about it in a book written by a French linguist (I cannot remember her name), it seems that the language was (artificially) revived by a group of enthusiasts who started to speak it among themselves two decades or so ago, even trying to teach their children to speak it. The number would amou8nt to only several hundred speakers by now.
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As far as I know the last Cornish speaker died in the late XIXth or early XXth centuries. The revival of the Cornish language was started soon afterwards. Currently there are two (or perhaps more?) grammar normatives.
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