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A bit like those who claim to speak Cornish?
Not sure what is meant here. The corpus of Cornish is quite large, and anyone who has studied it knows how to pronounce it. Any such person could read any of the thousands of surviving lines of Cornish and be speaking Cornish.
If you mean conversing in Cornish, I met a linguist who is equally fluent in Welsh, Breton, and Cornish. Whenever he meets another person fluent in Cornish, well, they can converse as well and you and me in English.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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