Cornish Language with Richard Gendall, Volume 1 http://www.robbiewright.com/html/product1.htm

[Kernowification]

Google "MAGA KERNOW" for latest updates on the Cornish language.

[cosinbrother]

please view my celtic channel for celtic language links, culture, history, music and more... come cousins and gather... meauras

[3umm3l]

is somebody able to translate quietness in cornish....PLEASE

[salisburyquakers]

Thanks for posting. How many people are actively speaking Cornish now? Is there any chance that the language will ever be revived to the point where hundreds of thousands of people will again speak it as a household language?

[Olekander]

AMAZING!

[sigster500]

why bother, if yer name dont fit you cant come in .... pathetic

[atraherne]

I would like to see Cornwall as a seperate country or state, economically it wouldn't survive as a stand alone country but as a "state" within the UK it survives well and retains a unique expression or identity.

[atraherne]

more diversity

[atraherne]

I think its nice that Cornish have their own varient as does the Whelsh. I don't know either as I am English, my family has been in and around London for several generations now but originates from Cornwall. Obviously we are the same country under UK and we share our primary language of English but keeping the local language going is beautiful. I see the different countries within the UK as states, each with their own identity, a little bit like in USA but a, on a smaller scale and b, much

[dimgwalltameiben]

People in Cornwall should adopt Welsh as their lang.Seriously. It's close enough to Cornish and you could watch Welsh telly and take part in Welsh cultural events.

[dimgwalltameiben]

Join in! Join up! Join us! I go to the Eisteddfod every year not coz I'm into poetry n stuff but for to be part of the unbelievable number of Welsh speakers - OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE !

[method2221]

@kerhk nah lol we have our own Langauge!

[morvil73]

Frag y talvia dhedhans perhedna an Kembrek mars eus dhedhans an Kernowek?

"Why should they adopt Welsh when they've got Cornish?"

[cinnireseisri]

Despite all the bickering in the comments section, I'm glad you made the vid bolcutt aka Robbie Wright. This language is certainly endangered and the respective community definitely appears to be struggling to bring it back from the brink. 50 years of research, linguist or not, has to be considered a valued contribution. Hopefully, with the development of SWF (single white female?! ha! ) this resurrection can gain momentum. For the Cornish diaspora vids like this make a huge difference.

[BobMonkfish]

I wondered when Gendall would get some stuff online.he's taken his time.

[boltcutt]

That's Mr Gendall to you!

[BobMonkfish]

Like I said, "Gendall". There's nothing wrong with referring to someone as that. It's not rude.

At least I didn't refer to him as Dick, but perhaps that name would better suit your attitude! Mr Head to you!

[boltcutt]

No my name is Robbie Wright. So far I have produced

5 Cornish language Cds and I'm working on 2 others. I will also be producing a Cornish language dictionary for Mr Gendall which he has spent the last 12 years researching.

Who are you to speak so disrespectfully to people who are trying to keep the Cornish language alive, and also what's your name?

[BobMonkfish]

I corresponded with Richard Gendall nearly twenty years ago, when you were probably in nappies. As for your patronising git comment of "Mr Gendall to you" - I hope you don't speak to people like that offline... you'd spend most of your life with a black eye.

[BobMonkfish]

"Who are you to speak so disrespectfully to people who are trying to keep the Cornish language alive, and also what's your name?"

I respect most people who work for the Cornish language. I do not respect PATRONISING GITS like you though.

I think Richard Gendall has done some great work for the Cornish language. It's just a pity that the various rival Cornish groups spent so much time complaining about one another, rather than doing useful things, and that is one of his greatest faults.

[boltcutt]

I accept your apology

[BobMonkfish]

I think you have things the wrong way round sonny... There is nothing wrong - or rude for that matter - about referring to someone by their surname.

[boltcutt]

"the wrong way round sonny.."

That's Mr Wright to you!

[BobMonkfish]

You were rude to me, first. I hope someone takes you down a peg or two some day. You need it.

[BobMonkfish]

"That's Mr Wright to you! "

Mr Nobody to the rest of the human race... ; - )

p.s. You'd do more practical good for Cornish by establishing a school for children. It sometimes feels that the language has more dictionaries than fluent speakers.

[Stickyboogarz]

This is cool. I'm a believer of saving ALL native languages, as they carry with them the history of a peoples and in turn our total planetary history, in the same way culinary traditions can do.

[harper277]

Does any one know the Cornish song 'Cast Net' the best way I can express the Cornish sound sound is with theseenglish phonic values (Towel Roose) or the phonemic values / taʊl ru:s /

[harper277]

太好了

[harper277]

Are there any native speakers? is there a modern standard Cornish by the looks of this Video linguists are just arguing out a fragmented version of the origional language.

[kerhk]

yes some children have been brought up bilingually so they could be considered native speakers

a standard written form was agreed in 2008

[theprophetlazarus]

Oh and if your doing a Master's Degree congrats... I've not yet been in education long enough as I am probably much younger than you. I don't see however that that gives you the right to talk down to me when my first comment was me inquiring why we aren't taught Cornish in School. Someone Learning a Master's degree you'd think would have the patience not to be a dick and consider what they were thinking or saying before and when they said it, Right?

[theprophetlazarus]

I also live in Cornwall and consider myself Cornish, I know many Cornish people aren't idiotic, stupid etc, but I know a big majority that are. I have nothing against other Cornish people. I am in College now taking ICT Practitioners, I speak Simple German, Spanish, French and Russian as I need to because I know a few people from these countries living in Cornwall. I don't however like Smart asses talking to down to me over the internet E.g. "you don't know very many people then"

[theprophetlazarus]

Excuse my spelling mistake.. I wasn't really paying attention...

[theprophetlazarus]

Actually I know very many people but as we all know (unlikes dumbshits like you) that not very many living in Cornwall are actually Cornish and the real Cornish people that do don't even know how to tie their own fucking shoe laces... prick...

[AskSOmeoneelse]

great vid

[Knappa22]

Being a Welsh speaker I can spot the similarities. The literal translation of the Cornish "God be with you" would be "Bendith Duw gennyt"... No-one says that as a phrase in Wales, but it makes sense and is cognate with the Cornish example here.

The way of saying "I have my health" is also cognate Welsh syntax. "I have" is "Mae gennyf" in Welsh... literally "there is with me".

I find Cornish totally fascinating - what a pity those Anglo-Saxons came and cut Cymru off from Kernow :-(

[theprophetlazarus]

I've lived in Cornwall my Whole life and I don't know anyone that speak Cornish or is even interested in learning. This Concerns me because everyone in Cornwall is always on about Keeping Cornish traditions... I believe Cornish Language would count as one of them tbh.

[KrisdashPaul]

i want you to be dead. JSYK

[IgnatiousWildshadow]

JSYK?