Cornish
PrintA language of United Kingdom
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Curnoack, Kernewek, Kernowek
Population
No known L1 speakers. Ethnic population: 469,000 (1991 census).
Location
Southwest, Duchy of Cornwall.
Language Status
9 (Dormant).
Classification
Dialects
Language Use
Religious services held in Cornish. Evening classes, correspondence courses, summer camps, children’s play groups. May have been extinct as L1 as early as 1777 but now being revived. Some children grow up bilingual in English.
Language Development
Taught in some schools. New media. NT: 2002–2004.
Language Resources
Writing
Latin script.
A few L2 speakers in Canada and Australia. Christian.