Thank you to akademikernewek.org.uk for the place name translations.

Would greatly appreciate some help from any Cornish speakers to check some specific labels for me, please reach out if you're interested.

Dydh da! I've been on a day trip in Kernow today, and I saw some Kernewek out in the wild!

Kernow a'gas dynnergh - Welcome to Cornwall Karyans rag Kernow - Transport for Cornwall Kammbronn - Camborne

And a bonus one Cyffwrdd i agor y drws, Welsh for touch to open the door. Found in Camborne railway station.

https://chng.it/nsR4TQBTyr

Is Penzance the only train station in Cornwall that provides Cornish signs ?

BBC Radio Cornwall have a new Learn Cornish podcast, although if you're outside the UK (as I am), you'll have to use a VPN to access it, which is crazy. (Do they hope to license the podcast to foreign broadcasters, or otherwise sell it overseas? If not, what is the point in denying access?)

According to the BBC:

The podcast was commissioned by the BBC to celebrate the Cornish language's recent upgrade to top level protection by the government – alongside Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh.

The Guardian adds:

Currently, public service broadcasting in Kernewek is limited to weekly news bulletins on BBC Radio Cornwal... In May last year, the Cornish Language Forum discussed “pressing the case for BBC Kernow”, in reference to the creation of a separate division akin to BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Alba. Steph Marshall, head of the BBC’s West and South West region, said that “we’ve got a long way to go” before there are “enough Cornish speakers to be able to justify that”, but is “hoping this podcast is the start of it”.

On Crowdfunder… here are a few stills from the 16mm scan available as 1/250 prints signed by the director and a couple of the hand screen printed rewards. Meur ras!

I was wondering if there are any native speakers of Cornish today. I.e. people who were raised as children with the language so that it became a joint mother-tongue with English, at least linguistically speaking. I can't find an example of anyone online. I know there was a Cornish nursery set up a few years ago, though.

Another question, following on from this, is how good would someone's level of the language be if they were raised like this? I wonder who the person with the most knowledge of the Cornish language is today - would it be the leading academic on the language?

I feel sad that Cornish is often forgotten among Welsh and Irish, themselves much endangered to a degree. It would be amazing if the BBC did a documentary on the language and its speakers in modern day Cornwall.

I'm kinda curious if there's a way to say.

"How has your day been?" In Cornish.

Fatla genes? - How's it going with you? (S) Fatla genowgh hwi? How's it going with you? (Pl) Fatel os ta? - How are you? (S) Fatel owgh hwi? - How are you? (Pl)

Dydh - day

There's: Fatel enough ow-mōs? - How are you getting on?

The Cornish word "dha" is confusing for Welsh learners like me because it's pronounced like the word “dda" in Welsh which means “good" but "dha" doesn't mean good in Cornish, even thought I keep thinking it does. It instead means "your" (singular). Cognate with Welsh "dy".

I think there’s a word for this kind of thing, false friends is that it? A false friend between Welsh and Cornish.

I thought people might like to see this; a nice story about language revival.

This might be old news to some but was surprised to hear about this research:

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/cornish-continued-to-be-used-throughout-the-19th-century-long-after-the-death-of-dolly-pentreath-new-book-shows/

Did anybody read the book (which is, unfortunately, quite expensive)? If so, does the claim that the spoken language (pre-revival, of course!) outlived Dolly Pentreath hold water? 🙂

The weather in Ware was marvellous today. I am learning the Cornish language from Hertfordshire