Modern Cornish

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Modern Cornish is a revived Celtic language of Cornwall, reconstructed from historical Cornish sources and used today by a small but growing community of speakers.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Modern Cornish canonical 2
Unified Cornish 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Brythonic language
Celtic language
constructed variety of Cornish
revived language
aimsTo preserve historical Cornish vocabulary
provide a usable modern standard of Cornish
reflect traditional Cornish phonology
basedOn Late Cornish
linked to: Late Middle Cornish

Late Middle Cornish
culturalAssociation Cornish people
hasAlternativeName Kernowek Nowedh
Kernuack Nowedga
Revived Cornish
linked to: Cornish

Traditional Cornish (revival variety)
hasDomain Cornish cultural activities
community events
local media
hasRegulator language revival organizations in Cornwall
hasSpeakers growing community of learners
small number of fluent speakers
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

orthographies based on traditional Cornish spelling
languageFamily Brittonic languages
linked to: Brittonic

Celtic languages
Indo-European languages
Insular Celtic languages
reconstructedFrom Late Cornish writings
Middle Cornish manuscripts
historical Cornish texts
traditional Cornish literature
region Southwestern Britain
relatedTo Breton language
linked to: Breton

Late Cornish
Middle Cornish
linked to: Cornish

Welsh language
linked to: Welsh
revivalBegan 20th century
revivalType language revival
spokenIn Cornish diaspora communities
Cornwall
United Kingdom
status minority language
revived minority language
subclassOf Cornish language
linked to: Cornish

revived Cornish
usedFor Cornish identity expression
cultural revival in Cornwall
education
literature and poetry
music and song
religious services

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Insular Celtic languages ancestorOf Modern Cornish
Cornish hasRevivalVarieties Unified Cornish
linked to: Modern Cornish
Brittonic hasDescendant Modern Cornish