Really interesting, I would love to hear both Languages. What is the difference between the language of the old and newer generations in Brittany? Is it still taught in Schools?

@@branthomas1621 Breton is predominantly spoken by older people. It's a dying language. Breton is very close to Cornish with some French influences.

Onion sellers from Brittney would come to Wales. My Grandfather who only spoke Welsh could converse with them somewhat.

​@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Is this because of the pernicious influence of the centralising French state?😊

You’d probably understand Welsh as well

And Ireland as well

Sad to say we're in danger for obvious reasons, the government have no respect for us. My little village got flooded with migrants and had it's first ever recorded crime by one of the new people; we used to go fish and stay out at night. Did any of us ever ask for this?

@@limpa756so sad

I know exactly the town you are talking about. My ancestors moved there for mining

So your technicianly cornish hello brother

I live here too. The towns of Moonta. Wallaroo and Kadina are called "Australia's Little Cornwall". We are called Cousin Jack's and Jenny's"

Proud of you all for keeping Kernow so close to your hearts. Xxxxx

I don't believe you that people are speaking Cornish in Australia

I consider that a good thing.

Kernow is not really England ;)

I dunno, England is an Anglo-Saxon invention, English is effectively Anglish. Anglo-Saxons did not have a lot to do with the Cornish culture. The Cornish culture dates to a time where every place in Britannia would have had it's own distinct culture. Rarely anybody speaks of the Northern Dobunni culture which was prevalent in my area, Cornish have far more publicity.

Cornwall is older than england. It's traditions are Cornish. If you want traditional england go to the cotswolds.

Exactly pard

I'd never heard of that, thanks for the info! I just googled it and was reading about the mining in that town, which makes sense given it's cornish roots. Fascinating stuff!

Yes ive heard alot of them still have cornish english features

Yes the biggest pasty factory is in Mexico if I’m not wrong.

@@TieranFreedman after the tin mining industry collapsed the miners moved into new areas such as Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada and Mexico to name a few.

VIVA CORNIXCO🇲🇽❣️🇮🇴🌈👑

Haha I figured there might be enough of those by now! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

Exactly what I was thinking. My dad is Cornish, Irish and English and my last name is Cornish -39, I'm also black and Native American. I support Cornish independence. I'm learning Chinese but after I finish I'm going to learn Cornish. If I can ever get better off economically I'm taking the trip to Cornwall my favorite place in Europe.

@@crossroadcircleoffical I'm black too

Mining and Methodism sound like a recipe for misery. It’s great to hear that.the Cornish language and the Celtic spirit is alive and well and bouncing back ❤

They got a lot of Strippers there?

Good man. Be proud of your noble lineage! From America with love!

Probably Chinese 😂

It really is. I think at the start of the last century there were around 5 fluent speakers. So that's a 10,000% increase in Cornish speakers in 100 years!

There's more speakers of Klingon

I've been learning and am able to say "hello", "how are you?" "I'm ok" and "Goodbye", but then got despondent as I had no-one else to practice with. Then a nearby neighbour moved in from Cornwall! I say the same things every time I see him and he humours me admirably! I hope to learn more now.

@@decem_sagittae nuqneH

It was great to see a Breton song performed at Eurovision!

Breizh da viken! 🖤🤍🖤🤍

Celts are more ancient than most people think, they're related to the Anatolian farmers who settled down in Mesopotamia.

We Cornish love and respect out great Breton cousins from across the waves. Long live the Bretons.

@@AsadAli-jc5tg Mentioned as Galatians in Central Asia Minor in the Bible

I love Poldark! ❤ Big fan I will have to check the audiobook out

Ur not reading ab audio book

Glad you found the video insightful! Me too, there are a lot of people pushing very hard to make that recognition happen. Though many of my friends here in Sussex still didn't know that Cornish was a language...

@@TieranFreedman I always knew Cornish was a Celtic language but I thought it was extinct unfortunately as Cornwall was full of retired people from London.

Friends of ours ( also from Dorset) came down to visit us in Cornwall. As we live in an old mining area, could not believe the old mining ruins, the amount of history on our doorstep. They loved the way Cornish schools teach Cornish history, teach the Cornish tongue. Most Cornish know the songs and shanties and proudly support our festivals. Even our buses have Cornish phrases for the visitors! Proud to be Cornish? Yes I am.

As a Welsh person, the Cornish are our cousins, they just have a more diverse selections of surnames than Wales (Cymru). We have like 12 surnames: Evans, Roberts, Jones, and that's bout it, but Cornish surnames are so interesting to me.

Particularly the history of how they (the people of kernow) allied themselves with the Danelaw and allowed their kingdom to be used as a Bridgehead to murder Wessexmen (from Dorset, Somerset and Devon)) and how it cost them their kingdom, eh?

Thank you, glad you liked it! I really enjoyed putting this video together, since I knew very little about Cornish culture and identity before I visited; it's crazy how underrepresented it is in the media. Does your family speak any Cornish? It's amazing to see such an impressive language revival effort!

@@TieranFreedman I know right? Unfortunately we don't, we have tried learning it, but without a proper Duolingo course (or, you know, it being taught in schools) it's quite difficult to pick up. Either way, sounds like you've enjoyed it down here! Can't wait for the next part! Kernow A'gas Dynergh!

I'm from Belfast and grew up in the most dangerous city on the planet now Europe's capital of Terrorism's Cornish aren't Celtic people neither or the free state invited them over we don't have Generation Z X snowflakes Woke's Gay's lesbian's Bull Dyke's lesbian's liberals left wing idiology we have no Eastern Europeans and African's and Americans and English bastard's keep your nose out of our business you don't have blonde hair blue green eyes Celtic features their is only 1.8 million people in Ulster Ulula let them cross the Irish sea they wouldn't be welcome in Larne or Belfast it's a fuckin War Zone a good knee caping or a Jesus feed them to the Pig's we've got our own terrorists and munitions so fuck off home British soldiers 800 years of attrococities made as slaves and we weren't worth a penny we were shot Hung Drawn Quartered beaten dragged around sexualy abused tortured and humiliated Oliver Cromwell committed mass Genocide numerous occasions we were put on slave ship's chained 7 years penal servitude never to return UTube stick your Armament decommissioning Tony Blair's and Moe Mollem we never retreat and no Surrender Robert Paddy Blair Main was a family friends he was educated at Belfast university and boxing champion he played Rugby for Ireland and the British lions he took out more aircraft that any other airman at Tripoli he single handedly took out the main gun post to allow the landings he was one of the 12 founder members of the S.A.S he against the government landed in France to rescue 100 S.A.S troops which were shot he also played his favourite song of lily marlain he & a Canadian soldier stolen a jep attached German soldiers who thought that they were under attack for a whole Battalion but still rescued his 5 body's he wone 9 medal's one being the French legion of hounner but never give the V.C he single handedly shot dead 30 airmen he is buried in movila cemetery with his family in Newtown Ards we refuse to watch series and because they are all totall bullshit episode's like we also in Ulula Ulster don't celebrate s.t Patrick's Day parade it's a day or work he was a slave never went to the free state so we think that the entire world are Wankers making fool's like the village idiots Oliver Cromwell committed mass Genocide numerous occasions we were shot Hung Drawn Quartered beaten dragged around sexualy abused tortured food clothing housing stollen from us put on slave ship's chained won't worth a penny we were shot for fun UTube the Irish in new Orleans History47 years years of attrococities shoot to kill policy castle lock you up without trial castle Reagh is the equivalent to quantanamo bay Cuba we had 800 years UTube go on home British soldiers UTube stick your dicommisioning up your arssholes as for the potato Famine effected all of us but England let us all drop dead we hate Brexit you English bastard's keep your nose out of our business Cornwall and Wales aren't Celtic features so we call you Heinz 57 Dolly mixture it's like Yorkshire think that they are above the rest of England your all English bastard's Pussycat's wouldn't know a harder day's work not1bit because you are genitic fuck ups

I remember stating in an English lesson i want to learn Cornish, was told we don't do that. I wish i made more of a problem

Lovely fluffy tale of how Europeans invaded the Americas 😅😅

@@kellz5135 you just hate soccer no actually, you see all white people the same, and thats the problem. Cornish people in Diaspora left because of oppression, not opportunism. not all migration is an invasion.

@@tecc8960 don’t worry it will still be there when you are long dead.

@@kellz5135 They didn’t invade,its called immigration.😊

not quite the same i think.

@@lesterquintrell4844 why not?

@@Oobido The eastern Irish have quite a bit of viking heritage as well.

@@Oobido where are you getting your information from? For most of Britain they have 28% of their DNA from Scandinavia, in Yorkshire it’s 52%. In our dialect we have many Old Norse loan words, substantially more of our place names are Viking origin, a lot of people I know have Scandinavian origin surnames and we have a lot of Viking history in York, including the Jorvik Museum.

People aren’t confident enough or know enough about our history to ask for recognition as a country unfortunately. I’d recommend reading some of the books produced by the Yorkshire Dialect Society, like with Scots we also had a period of rich poetry and literature but it’s mostly been forgotten because of our status of being part of England.

Hopefully, they'll accept you one day, John.

@@moosey62 am I right in saying we are meant to have at least 3 generations in the grave before we can say we’re Cornish 😁

Hopefully they'll ACCEPT you before then.

@@moosey62 lol never hapn

@@moosey62 god loves a trier 😉😂

You must be fun at parties, sound just like a devoner you are

You do yourselves a disservice. The Cornish people are different, along with a tiny piece of South West Wales. The other 'different place' is the Orkneys. The Cornish had a particular asset, and that was tin. There were only two sources of tin that supported the entire European Bronze Age, the other was in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, you can forget that whole Celtic thing. There's no evidence of any connection between any of the people of North-Western Europe and the guys who made the astonishing jewellery. Here's the phrase from the 2015 genomic study: "...there exist genetically differentiated subgroups rather than a general ‘Celtic’ population."

@@nicktecky55 Celts are not a genetic grouping, they were a culture that spread throughout most of Europe. The different Celtic peoples were never one homogeneous genetic block, rather they were about as varied as the genetics of the peoples of Europe in the modern era. The Cornish are Celtic, as were the people of the British Isles generally, but the Cornish are notable for managing to continue practicing their Celtic culture for longer than the rest of what constitutes England thanks mainly to their isolated location. The Cornish people are a Celtic people, because Celt is a cultural term not a genetic one. Cornwall isn't unique in its tin deposits, as neighbouring Devon also has them, granted in Sub-Roman Briton they were part of a Brythonic Kingdom that stretched from Cornwall up to the River Axe in Dorset. There are also major bronze age tin deposits in Brittany and North-Western to Central Iberia. A fairly large quantity of bronze age crafted tin objects have been found in Salcome in Devon, comparable to those found in the Levant and parts of Ancient Greece.

@@treeaboo Excellent, thank you. Well researched facts over fanciful emotions.

I'm Welsh and largely agree with you. There are certain Welsh trains I like to think as being unique, but I dont think they are. There are common denominators that people share with other groups such as warmth and a good humoured approach to life, but these are culturally learned types of behaviour rather than genetic predisposition. Community people are familiar and down to earth. The richer people get, the more independ and distant they become.

Hahaha, I was going to say something similar but not as good as the drewdrop description.🙃

This is the most British comment I think I've ever seen

This videos just click bait, your soo right

So it’s a summer vacation spot ? Holiday spot?

I'm guessing the metaphor flew over your head?

4:47 btw

Yeah Irish are like that especially after a game of rugby...

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it! There is a part 2 you can find on my channel as well if you are interested 😊

@@TieranFreedman Please do a vidoe on Wales for years they have been treated horrible by the English at one point in history , their language was banned by the English

In short, it spreads more divide

@@JoeCool90 In short, yes :)

Very, very well said.

So... Basically any country.Every country is exactly this.

@@JoeCool90 LET US AMALGAMATE INTO A NAMELESS, FACELESS MASS OF NATIONHOOD: A PANGEA OF PERSONHOOD, A DESERT OF DESCRIPTORS, CHARACTERIZED BY CHARACTERLESSNESS. IN THE NAME OF WORLD PEACE, NATIONHOOD IS NO MORE. WE HAVE TRANSCENDED THE FETTERS OF ETHNICITY AND RELIGION, SHARED HERITAGE AND HISTORY. IT IS BEST TO FORGET EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT IS, AND THINK INSTEAD OF WHAT OUGHT TO BE!!!! 🤪

Correct. It was completely extinct. When I visited Cornwall, I went to a cemetery to see the gravestone of the last native speaker.

I think a celtic identity is more to do with culture and language than genetics, and all modern "Celtic Nations" are places where non-germanic languages survive (or at least survived long after English arrived in the British isles), and in Cornwall, Cornish, (A Brythonic language similar to Welsh and Breton), was spoken up until the late 18th century, although, you'll be happy to know, it has recently experienced a revival!, now being taught in more than 60 schools in Cornwall

Celtic linguistic and cultural identity rather than DNA. The French people have a Celtic history in the Gaulish people. The Gaulish language is long gone and most traces of their Celtic heritage are also lost. Therefore the French are not considered Celtic. The only Celtic part of France is Brittany which was settled by British Celts in the Dark Ages. There are Celts in Galicia in Spain too.They are racial Celtic, have a Celtic culture, in particular their music, but have lost their Celtic language. Some people consider the Galicicians not fully Celtic because they lack a Celtic language.

There is no Celtic DNA as such.

I completely agree. The other pre Roman tribes are also still 'trapped', by this interpretation. The late Saxon boundary setting carved up much of regional England into what we know today, and yet many pre Roman tribal boundaries still show as sub-regional county boundaries. I was raised in the Cantii, and there are accents and manners of speaking there that are different to other counties etc. But the language was lost over centuries of rule - Latin, then Saxon, Norman French etc. But the people are still there... England and the UK is a mosaic of tribal boundaries. This is an excellent production, yet you could argue every county in England is 'trapped' in England. And there are the peoples who were here before the celtic incursions....what of them? Are they trapped in Cornwall? It goes ever on, and a simple interpretation is never conclusive.

What agenda? Some people just want to connect with their past.Selective history. Ha! Your riiiight! I'm interested in Egyptian History because I want to go through the Stargate and talk to Ra 👁️ about Nuclear weapon supplies. While I'm in the Orion system I'll do a little sunbaking, mining negotiations and bring home a 👰 bride and camel.

What a journey! Do you know what brought them there? I just looked it up and saw there was some mining there.

Mining specifically copper. Thousands of Cornish came in the 1800s to South Australia. Moonta is affectionately knows as Australia’s little Cornwall and home to the largest Cornish festival on the planet Kernowik Lawender which takes place every two years. My family are from Moonta Mines who’s ancestors came from Cornwall mostly from Stithians Cornish miners we were. Cousin Jack and Jennie’s

@@christopherericparker live in Lancashire, have cornish ancestors who came up here in 19th century , to work down the pits, they were pascoes ,some from Stithians ,copper and tin miners , I've learnt that thousands of cornish migrated to lancashire and lots of places had a little Cornwall area in towns across the Lancashire coalfields

@@eldee9842 No I am not English, my surname actually means Cornwall

@@laurint1 Cornwall is a part of England though so you are of English blood

How come I see you everywhere

All the Celtic nations have a word like that, that cannot be translated, it’s described as a pain of not being able to return to your home, due to English colonialism

Yes we do, it's "hireth". Like a lonely homesick nostalgia. It's a wonderful word and as I sit here on the train crossing the Tamar I feel it big time!

If not, someone will make one up! They have made up words for Mobile phones, and other modern electrical devices, which were not around when the Cornish language was spoken!

I am guessing "hir", meaning "long", "hiraeth" would be longing.

In English it's "hearth".

Greetings!....dydh da!

Normally the yanks haha

Thank you for the kind words Lisa, glad you enjoyed it! 😊

Never show

What do Cornish people think of London and Londoners? 😂

I agree, children should be taught their history! I’m neither English or Cornish but, we had a fantastic English History teacher in Highschool that’s why I know that Cornwall was first settled by the Celts!

All this internal debate on these small islands makes no difference now. Britain is owned by Islam and within 2 generations will be mostly populated by none Europeans.

So lovely that you feel such a strong connection to your homeland. It must have been hard being away from it for so long. Where about in Cornwall are you from?

The Cornish revival was derailed in the late 20th century when Ken George invented a rival form of Cornish and it split the revival movement down the middle, with competing orthographies and different grammars and vocabularies. Much of the effort on Cornish since then has tried to repair the damage. You can easily see the difference between Cornish texts: If you see a word with "wh" in it, that's good authentic Cornish. If it has the ugly and ahistorical "hw" instead, it's the fake newfangled variety.

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😁

So you say .. sir , I say your ancestors never saw a shovel in anger. Bread theives and handkerchief bandits no doubt. Free boat to the colonies Good day!

Your DNA shows exactly where in England you’re from? Lol. Where did you get that? Mine says in mostly English, but it doesn’t tell me I’m mostly London.

My local pub has a framed sign about emigration to Australia with free travel from the 1800s. Meetings were held there in the pub!

What is the other 40%?

​@@pommiebears Cornish DNA is distinguishable from English DNA and easier to pin point, English DNA could be anywhere from Plymouth to Carlisle.

Thanks for the kind words ☺️ Glad you enjoyed it! It really is a shame the Celtic cultures in the UK are not celebrated more by the government. I didn't know too much about Cornwall prior to filming this, so it was really fascinating to learn about it :)

Considering whether anyone likes it or not, England and Scotland basically subsidise Northern Ireland and Wales, whilst I admire your independent spirit, how do you propose to fund your new Cornish Republic? Weigh in mind that you will need energy of some kind, a financial system and more than just a vague goal of employment opportunities. Furthermore it's quite a bold claim and frankly Horseshoe Theory the claim in this video that the Cornish are ethnically distinct from the English. I once encountered a very unsavoury Englishman claiming that English is 'a special ethnicity that needs protecting' as he seemed to forget about the rest of Britain and Europe. Like the word Ultra-Nationalist applies to such types. Eerily similar and very very disturbing.

"Nation"? Lol

Kernow Bys Vyken

It IS completely ignored . By most people in Cornwall . And rightly so ..

It was called South and West Wales before the invasion.

Cornishman here, lots of farming families around me named Buller! :)

Mandarin and other dialects are all part of chines language groups. Cornish is totally unrelated to english being celtic vs germanic language group . Cornish language was purposly destroyed by the british/english

@@henkvandervossen6616 doesnt matter what language group its part of, cornwall is part of England.

@@v_cpt-phasma_v689 that is true, but not the point exactly

@@henkvandervossen6616 It wasn't purposefully destroyed by the English, it died out because English became the prestige language.

English DNA isn’t German and Saxon.Yes they invaded but didn’t replace the local population.Latest DNA of the English shows ‘invaders’ DNA as an extremely small percent,with over 95% ancient Briton.

Glad you enjoyed it Chris! It was really fascinating to learn about it, and great to meet some fluent Cornish speakers. There will be a second part coming in the not-too-distant future! 🙂

@@TieranFreedman also just a random point, you pronounce 'dha weles' as 'dah'. 'Dh' is pronounced 'th'. Meur ras!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! From a personal standpoint, I found it (and part 2 which will be coming soon) to be really fascinating to film and edit. I knew next to nothing about Cornish culture and identity, since it is so rarely mentioned in the media. So it was great to learn so much during my visit and hear the language spoken by so many fluent Cornish speakers!

@@TieranFreedman sadly there are only very few in reality, the only reason there's any Cornish culture left at all is because of the hard work of a vocal minority of very dedicated individuals. there's very little attention paid to Cornish culture in schools, it's only independent organisations. it's tempting to say it's hegemonic oppression. regardless, i'm appreciative to you for reaching out and taking an open mind into this, it's amazing how people can independently create genuinely valuable pieces of investigative journalism, and i look forward to part 2!

I live just across the border and I'd say that's quite accurate having met some farmers, though I wouldn't immediately interpret a cold reception as hostility.

Every Cornishman/woman I know is jolly friendly warm and inviting. It might have been something wrong with your own attitude?

Are you a 2nd home owner?

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you glad you enjoyed it! ☺️

You might also like to read Vanishing Cornwall, by Daphne Du Maurier, and her Cornish novels

@@janknuckey thank you, I will.

Lol, and there isn't actually anyone trying to stop them celebrating tjeur traditions. Some parts of the UK just like to pretend we still live in the 10th century, and we still need to fight each other.

@@RonSill1986 As someone from Atherstone and our ball game just a few weeks ago ill say you couldnt be more wrong .

@god zillas search uppies and downies Workington town because we plsy a similar game in the North West of England. You're not a victim.. The game gets dangerous, people get hurt, and that's why people like the police want it banned. It's not an attack on your culture, so stop pretending it is. You're exactly the type of person I described lol

Thank you! ☺️

I think inspiring is a better term. I’m not jealous, but I am inspired! Thank you.

Tbf every county has its own identity and history. I’m from Sussex… I don’t delude myself it’s an independent state, even tho it was in 477 and not taken by Vikings at all.

​@@Anglo_Browza ​@Anglo Browza But that's the Problem though. That attitude. Sussex has always been a part of the mainland of England. Corwall was its own country, we had language, flags and our own kings. Just like wales, or Scotland or ireland, but people are able to identify those nations as Seperate. The Cornish get lost by being seen as a county of England. We didn't become a part of England because we were asked nicely. You know? I can't explain to an English person Why, as a cornish person I've never felt like I really fit, because that displacement is seen as delusion. But that's what the english do. eradicate an entire culture through Invasion, then call that same group of people, delluded when they're upset about it. The takeover of Cornwall was also far more recent than 477. We became seen as a county in 1889. That's recent history. I'm married to an English Man, and he had no idea Cornwall was even a Celtic nation. That's Cultural Eradication and we have every right to be bothered by it.

@@shannonclarke656 yeah Sussex had a king as well. You’re outlook is ridiculous. Look at the US… look how large it is and how different each state is. It’s still one country. The UK is union, it’s common knowledge it’s made up of many places and people. You should be proud to be British

@@shannonclarke656 yeah Sussex had a king as well. You’re outlook is ridiculous. Look at the US… look how large it is and how different each state is. It’s still one country. The UK is union, it’s common knowledge it’s made up of many places and people. You should be proud to be British

@Anglo Browza You should ask Native Americans If they feel "Proud To Be American". It is you with the Ridiculous outlook.

Do you know where abouts your mother's family came from in Northern Ireland?

@@danieleaglen3433 Yes. Letterkenny and some north of there on the coast.

Lovely part of the country

@@corinnecowper1339 Letterkenny is in the Republic of Ireland not Northern Ireland unless you meant northern Republic of Ireland

Vogue magazine wrote to the pub in Vogue (Star inn Vogue) telling them that they couldn't use the name?. You can imagine the response...The magazine had to back track as it was clearly pointed out to them that the village had been in existence long before the magazine was developed.

And students making it unaffordable for locals.

Thank you glad you enjoyed it! That's the plan, I'll be publishing one on the Isle of Man in a few weeks 😊

Rubbish !! There are Zero fluent Cornish speakers in Britain !!

Have school ?

So glad you enjoyed the video 😊 It was great to have the chance to learn so much about Cornwall, particularly since I was never taught about any Celtic history or heritage growing up. It's a really beautiful place!

Fly St.Pirins flag high!

My father was Cornish and I think my relatives still live in St,Blazey and in Bodmin! Me,I'm Scottish but love my Cornish side too!

@@georgejob2156as some one who’s lived in bodmin may I offer my sincerest apologies to your relatives

Would you recommend middle class person to move there alone as a woman? 😯

Best Cornish pasties in the world came from the bakery at Adelaide train station in the 90's

go Doc Martin for showing us!!!!!!

Most people living in Cornwall are English.

That’s because it’s Gaelic

What is a "southern British" accent?

That's cos you're in a town, go to a farm and you'll hear Cornish accents

I hope you enjoyed your stay in the Isles of Scilly.

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it ☺️

as brilliant as violent

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Maybe you've seen it already, but there is actually a part 2 on my channel that covers exactly that 😁

And who would end up paying? The poor old English as usual, the cash cow of the UK

@@blackbeard6423 really? Who said they didn’t? If they want independence I’m in favour as long as they pay for the referendum and if they vote to leave the UK then pay to actually leave.

@@blackbeard6423 what are you on about you mug. I live in London, been to Cornwall once in my life. Nice place and if you want independence then fair enough, just pay for it yourselves.

@@blackbeard6423 what nonsense you knob? I’m not bringing nothing to Cornwall. Your must be an inbred. Just if Cornwall want independence then pay for it. That’s all.

These 3 peoples made colonial twang aka modern americanized westernization universal dialect.

If they didn’t save English from extinction, what would be speaking in England and the US? What language or languages at that time were pushing English to the brink? Thank you in advance for taking time to answering my curiosity!

@@jamesogara7053 we would be speaking a dialect of French

Complete hogwash! Whilst we incorporated a lot of French and later Latin into English the masses were never in danger of losing all the Saxon influences. Norman French was the language of the Aristocracy. The ordinary masses still used much of their Saxon vocabulary and sentence structure to communicate in everyday life. Modern English is still classified as a West Germanic language not a Romance language although it has evolved over it’s history. This quote sounds like a fanciful opinion because I’m not sure how these folks were supposed to have saved the language that was spoken by the majority in the country in one form or another.

@@pennyfarthing1372 totally true Google there names and learn your Cornish history!

The Celts went further south than that, they sacked Rome in 390 BC.

@@Lexivor all over fighting

Yes they were, But a part from trade, the Celts had nothing to do with the British Isles.

Wow I have to confess I didn't know that, thank you for the info! And there I was thinking I'd made it through through whole thing without any big errors 😅

Awesome! Not far from St Michael's Mount right? It's a beautiful area. Hope you enjoyed the video 😁

There is a Launceston over there presumably after the town in Cornwall.

@@sarac.3259 Launceston is in Tasmania... but clearly a Cornish connection.

As well as the mining areas of Wisconsin, USA. Many Cornish emigrated there.