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Let's kewsel Cornish once again Almost-dead Celtic language now has 100 speakers
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Cornish has been granted official protection under the provisions
of a European Union charter on "minority languages," paving the way
for schoolchildren to be taught and speak (kewsel) it.
Until recently, Cornish was thought by many to be merely an
attractive curiosity of Cornwall, a part of southwestern England.
Dolly Pentreath, the last Cornish monoglot, died in 1777, and at
its lowest ebb the language was spoken by only a single person. It
has, however, undergone a gradual revival.
Supporters of the language now include Ruth Rendell, the novelist,
and the Asda supermarket chain, which has ...
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