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Cornish is a Celtic language and a member of the Brythonic or Brittonic branch of the Insular Celtic language family, along with Welsh and Breton. It was spoken as a community language in Cornwall until the late 18th century, and a few people continued to speak it into the 19th century.
Cornish is a Celtic language, and the majority of its vocabulary, when usage frequency is taken into account, at every documented stage of its history is inherited direct from Proto-Celtic, either through the ancestral Proto-Indo-European language, or through vocabulary borrowed from unknown substrate language(s) at some point in the ...
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The online dictionary of Cornish. Gerlyver warlinen a Gernewek.The dictionary is written in the Standard Written Form of Cornish. Akademi Kernewek is recognised by Cornwall Council as the definitive body responsible for corpus planning for the Cornish language.
In the English - Cornish dictionary you will find phrases with translations, examples, pronunciation and pictures. Translation is fast and saves you time.
Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic. All of these are Insular Celtic languages, since Breton, the only living Celtic language spoken in continental Europe, is descended from the language of settlers from Britain.
• Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum or Dictionary of the ancient Celtic language of Cornwall, by Robert Williams (1865) & another version • Archæologia Cornu-Britannica : Cornish grammar & Cornish-English vocabulary, by William Pryce (1790)
