The Death and Subsequent Revival of the Cornish Language
Broadhurst, K
Date: 2020
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The Open Review
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South West Doctoral Training Partnership
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Abstract
Cornish is the vernacular language of Cornwall, the most South-Western part of Great Britain. It is widely
believed the language died out in the eighteenth century with the death of Dolly Pentreath, the so-called
last speaker of the language. What caused the language to become extinct, and why do minority languages
fall into disuse? ...
Cornish is the vernacular language of Cornwall, the most South-Western part of Great Britain. It is widely
believed the language died out in the eighteenth century with the death of Dolly Pentreath, the so-called
last speaker of the language. What caused the language to become extinct, and why do minority languages
fall into disuse? After the subsequent Cornish language revival at the beginning of the twentieth century,
what lessons can the language community learn from linguists who have researched language extinction and
revival?
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