I am English, but learning Welsh & I'm totally blown away by it. I recognise a lot of Cornish words which are similar to Welsh. Celtic languages are fascinating & beautiful. May they thrive & flourish!

Did he say, "Thy will be done one earth as it is in Portland???"

Kernow is still here on this earth.

I am from Cardiff a Welshmun and I besotted with kernow and I have been to your beautiful Cornwall for years on holiday in penzance and touring around kernow with German tourists but myself I am trying to learn your native cornish language slowly. As between Wales or cymru a has similar words to the cornish words. So please can you keep sending your video clips and any words via my phone would be appreciated thanks Colin from Cardiff/ Caerdydd

Attempts to revive Cornish are nothing new. When I visited Cornwall in the 1970s, I was able to buy a Cornish phrase-book. The language was extinct for hundreds of years and had to be recreated from whatever sparse remnants survived. Many people in Cornwall have little or no Cornish heritage having come from other parts of the UK.

The South African accent definitely originated from here

It became extinct in 1800 so how do they know they're speaking i.e. pronunciating the language properly? How does a language become extinct anyway surely the people would speak it in private wouldn't they

Anglais I'm Breton and when I read or hear Cornish, I feel at home. Our two languages ​​are very close. I would say two sister languages.

Awesome my last name is true Cornish TREWIN !! Time to break free from England and become sovereign Cornwall and speak your language and revive your traditions 💪

What's "the *Medier?* Do they mean the *Media!*

So the amount of eople that speak it is less rhan your average secondary school? Is it relly a recognised language? 500 is nothing.

I do not see why we cannot all learn a third language to keep our local languages and dialects alive. Ancient peoples could speak British, Latin, and Greek or Hebrew, or Arabic, so modern people can learn 2,3,4 languages, and use 1 locally, 1 on the phones, and 1 across UK, and another internationally. Many of us today are just too lazy, or do not realise what we are missing out on. Gaining opportunities to use language is a big problem, and we should encourage all opportunities possible.

Teacher Emilie has a name that looks French, but seems to speak with an accent from the Somerset/Devon area. How small a world can be.

I was taken from cornwall as a child, all semblance of my language was beaten out of me so English kids could “better understand” I’m now 25 and planning to move back. I’ve dedicated the last few years to honouring my heritage and taking back what I lost. This video really moved me.

Oof-‘Southwest England’

This always amuses me I no loads off people off kernow, so proud off there county, and that's what it is not a country, but very few speak kernowak!😅😂

Id like them to speak with a cornish accent not a queens english accent you know, like maria warnes ganfer could probably sound authentic

All these so-called Cornish-speakers sounds like they're speaking some gibberish in an English accent rather than a different language. Cornish died 200 years ago. Whatever is spoken now is probably better understand as a constructed language, a kind of neo-Cornish by English-speakers who sound English and not Celtic when they speak it. A language needs unilingual native speakers to survive. This whole thing feels like clutching at straws. At least Welsh remains a real and living language depending on native speakers. But this conlang neo-Cornish does not. Welsh-speakers do not sound English when they talk in Welsh. But neo-Cornish speakers do.

idk why hearing the lords prayer in cornish made me laugh lol

I doubt that 500 people are completely fluent. Most probably only speak a few words.

What's the song @ 2:32?

As an English speaking American I find it easy to follow along with a reconstructed language like Cornish uses photo tactics from the English language Makes it easier on the year to recognize what word begins in the word ends

Not just Cornish but the English, esp in South western, western and north England should rediscover their Brythonic language. I saw some DNA research a few weeks ago that said that Germanic Anglo Saxon DNA in the English population drops from around 45% in the East to as low as 5% in the West. The Britons in what became England never went away but were changed culturally.. I live in Brittany now and love the culture and the rise of Breton usage.

I'm fairly sure that the Lord's Prayer at the beginning wasn't Cornish (Kernowek) but rather some kind of Cornish dialect of English. Here's the Lord's Prayer in Kernowek: Agan Tas ni, eus y’n nev, bennigys re bo dha hanow. Re dheffo dha wlaskor, Dha vodh re bo gwrys y’n nor kepar hag y’n nev. Ro dhyn ni hedhyw agan bara pub dydh oll, ha gav dhyn agan kammweyth kepar dell evyn nyni dhe’n re na eus ow kammwul er agan pynn ni; ha na wra agan gorra yn temptashyon, mes delyrv ni dhiworth drog. Meulwers (Doxology): Rag dhiso jy yw an wlaskor, ha’n galloes ha’n gordhyans, bys vykken ha bynari. Amen.

I have so much respect for this Teacher. Bless her heart.

American here: Was that guy NOT speaking the Lord's Prayer in Cornish, in the very opening of this video?

As a native Welsh speaker I empathise.

Honours

I know nothing of any Celtic tongue.... but I knew everything of the Lord's Prayer they recited!

There is some kind of bilingual folk-song at the very end. You should have put a link to that in the info!

'Real' Cornish has died out as a spoken language. (see history). The 'revival' of it is futile (to quote Joan Baez) and not 'the real thing'. I hope The Belgian government will take action to prevent Flemish and Walloon (all intermingled btw) accents an local languages die too.

Theyre British yet want to be like foreigners.They`ll want their own Parliament next

I've eaten so many Cornish pies in my life, I perfectly understood that lords prayer in the beginning!!! Amazing!!

Shouldn’t they be trilling there R?

What a beautiful sounding language. I hope its the first language spoken on another world.

If only Cumbric was capable of being revived too

When I learned that there was a Cornish language and heard the sound of it, I came to love it. It means so much to me that I named my colden colered cat "Howlek" he is Howlek an Gath. At least I speak West Country dialect. I be the singular Mester Jenkin' baint but one o' we.

Cornish is a beautiful language and the revival of the language is incredible. Up until around the 12th century most counties and areas had their own Celtic language/dialect however Anglish (Middle English) Swept through most the country, much later in the 15th century there were plans to remove all non-English languages and by the 19th Century it was too late for revivals. Or so they thought

An nowodhow da ha rag fleghes war an dowlenn ma Sur ov na o ll da

Keep up the fight for your identity.... Not the end all ne all but a sense of roots and belonging.... Keltic nations have suffered too much belittling while giving so much.... Time to stand up.!

A Cornish language unit in Cornish schools should be the next main goal for activists.

Should have had everyone speak Cornish and subtitle it in English. I don't speak Cornish, nor do I have any Cornish ancestors, nor do I have any Cornish relatives, nor do I even know anybody who's Cornish, but I have been charmed by the language and I like hearing it spoken

i might not speak Cornish but i'm pretty sure that what sounds like "Our Father" in Cornish at the beginning of this film, is just a list of Cornish place names with similar sounds to Our Father in English.

Celtic brother

There are parts also of the person that wish not to cling to what gives a specious identity in a larger and more general world. They wish nothing to do with the world at all. They rise apart from it, stand against it, and both remake and destroy it where it is deemed appropriate. The language is not only a communication tool, or repository of culture and meaning. It is a person, and it is also a large part of human persons. The language has a life of its own and wants to live, whether people are up to the task or not. People are just like the blood cells and cultural institutions are just like organs, and the language is just like the soul and mind that wants to live through them, though they also claim lives of their own. Cornish and Welsh are very smooth and beautiful languages when spoken well, and very ancient, and deserve to live, no less as much as do English or German, French or Italian. So the many well-known and robust works of philosophy and poetry are mainly found in German and English. Is your best friend necessarily a well-known philosopher or poet? Perhaps your best friend is a cheeky rastler. He also wants to speak and live.

I like what youre doing and good luck to you with it. But I think an important part of a language is the pronouciation and accent. The accents I hear sound like an English person trying to speak a foreign language. A lot of the people on this have south eastern English or estuary English accents. I doesnt sound authentic enough without the original accent. Im sure some of the original pronounciations are lost too.

5:53 Freudian but true~there are more speakers of Klingon than Kernowek.

That Lord's Prayer at the beginning, whatever language that's in it doesn't sound like Cornish to me! What was it??

Kernewek bys vyken 🤗

Sounds like English as modified by Dr. Seuss.