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27th June 16, 04:37 AM
#11
 Originally Posted by O'Callaghan
Cornish is a revived dead language, reconstructed from written documents that survived.
Sorry for being nit-picky, but "reconstructed" suggests (to me anyway) that only fragments survived and linguists have had to fill in the blanks with analogies and guesses. This isn't the case with Cornish, as far as my understanding goes.
We don't need to reconstruct Elizabethan English. Pick up a King James Bible and you'll know how to express pretty much anything a language might need to express.
Cornish isn't that fortunate, but there's a vast corpus, and as far as I know not much mystery about how to say things. One work alone is 9,000 lines long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_literature
My grandmother recalls her grandparents, Cornish miners, conversing in a language that wasn't English when they didn't want the grandkids to know what they were talking about. Was it Cornish? Was it Welsh, perhaps picked up from Welsh miners? I'll never know.
Anyhow here are people conversing in Cornish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Ks1xEWnNg
Last edited by OC Richard; 27th June 16 at 04:59 AM.
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