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Cornish Kernewek
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• OpenL: English-Cornish online translation (& other languages)

• Akademi Kernewek: Cornish-English dictionary

• Gerlyver Kernewek-Cornish dictionary (standard written form) (2020)

• Korpus-Corpus

• Henwyn tyller-Place names

• English-Cornish glossary (standart written form), by Albert Bock, Benjamin Bruch, Neil Kennedy, Daniel Prohaska, Laurence Rule (2010)

• Kernow Goth : Cornish Dialect, words and sayings, collected by Paul Phillips, the dialect recorder for the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I-K - L - M - N - O-P - Q-R - S - T - U-Z

• Geryow gwir: the lexicon of revived Cornish, by Nicholas Williams (2013) online

• The new standard Cornish dictionary, An Gerlyver Kres, by Ken George (1998) online


• BBC: Cornish-English vocabulary (+ audio)


• English-Cornish dictionary by Frederick Jago (1887)

• The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall: glossary of Cornish provincial words (English dialect) & additional information about Dolly Pentreath, the last known person who spoke the ancient Cornish as her mother tongue, by Frederick Jago (1882)

• 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)

• Vocabularium cornicum: Cornish-Latin glossary from a 12th century manuscript


• Geirlyer Kyrnẁeig: manuscript of a Cornish dictionary compiled by Edward Lhuyd (1708)


• Cornish place-names in the landscape by Joanne Pye, thesis (2019)

• Some Cornish place-names with *lyw by Alexander Falileyev, in Studia Celtica (2018)

• Menydh and other cornish words for "hill" par Ken George (2011)

• Place-names of Cornwall in general and Pillaton in particular (2017)

• Étude de toponymie comique by Paul Quentel, in Revue internationale d'onomastique (1959)

• Quelques traits de la toponymie maritime de la Cornouaille britannique, in Annales de Bretagne (1950)

• Les données de la toponymie du Devon en fonction de l'émigration bretonne en Armorique, in Annales de Bretagne (1952)

• Cornish place names & language by Craig Weatherhill (1995) online

• 1000 Cornish place names explained by Julyan Holmes (1983) online


• Patronymica Cornu-Britannica: the etymology of Cornish surnames, by Richard Stephen Charnock (1870)

• Glossary of Cornish names, ancient and modern, local, family, personal… by John Bannister (1871) + PDF file


• A short history of Cornish lexicography by Jon Mills, in Words and dictionaries (2016)

• Cornish lexicography in the 20th century: standardisation and divergence (1999)

• Cornish syntagmatic lexical relations: collocations and multi-word lexemes, in Cornish language research network conference (2015) + video

• Etymology and the relexification of Cornish in the 20th century, in Etymological thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries (2015) + video

• Cornish toponymy from the 17th century to the present day, in Annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the history of linguistic ideas (2016) + video

• The Vocabularium Cornicum: a Cornish vocabulary? (2013)

• Middle Cornish lexical register: the role of etymology (2014)

• Middle Breton leiff, Middle Cornish ly, "breakfast, lunch", by Anders Richardt Jørgensen, in Keltische Forschungen (2008)

• The two middle cornish words for "grace": gras and ras, by Ken George

Cornish language

• Cornwall Council: the Cornish language

• Go Cornish: Cornish course (+ audio)

• Kesva: Cornish course

• Cussel an Tavas Kernôwek: course, vocabulary, proverbs…

• Cornish course for beginners

• Kernowek Standard: An orthography for the Cornish language

• Guide to spelling and pronunciation

• An outline of the standard written form of Cornish by Albert Bock & Benjamin Bruch (2008)

• Kernewegva

• The vowels of Cornish

• Teer ha Tavaz: course of Modern Cornish (WaybackMachine)

• Middle Cornish: grammar by Lauran Toorians

• Cornish studies resources: language, surnames and history, by Bernard Deacon


• Brief history of the Cornish language, its revival and its current status, by Siarl Ferdinand, in e-Keltoi (2013)

• The promotion of Cornish in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: attitudes towards the language and recommendations for policy, in Studia celtica fennica (2019)

• Names, varieties and ideologies in revived Cornish, by Merryn Davies-Deacon, in Studia celtica posnaniensia (2017)

• Orthographies and ideologies in revived Cornish, dissertation (2016)

• studies about the Cornish language, by Jon Mills

• Genocide and ethnocide: the suppression of the Cornish language, in Interfaces in language (2021)

• Language death and revival: Cornish as a minority language in UK, by Zsuzsanna Renkó-Michelsén, in Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (2013)

• Standardising Cornish: the politics of a new minority language, by Dave Sayers, in Language problems & language planning (2012)

• Studies in the consonantal system of Cornish by Talat Chaudhri, thesis (2007)

• The politics of form use and belief in the Kernewek language: in search of a single voice, by Jesse Owen Harasta, thesis (2013)


• studies about the Cornish language, by Ken George

• Cornish: a fifth dialect of Breton? (2005)

• Which base for revived Cornish? in Cornish Studies (1995)

• The basis of Kernewek kemmyn (Common Cornish) (2007)

• The noun suffixes -ter/-der, -(y)ans and -neth in Cornish, in Études celtiques (1992)

• What happened to primitive Cornish /i/ when long in closed syllables?, in Studia celtica posnaniensia (2018)

• Two Cornish verbs : beg and believe (2022)

• Rhyme and scansion in Cornish (1999)


• A description of the Middle Cornish Tregear manuscript (homilies translated by John Tregear, 16th century) by Talat Chaudhri (2001)

• Breton et cornique: Breton and Cornish in the late Middle Ages, by Léon Fleuriot, in Annales de Bretagne (1969)


• Handbook of the Cornish language & Some account of its history and literature, by Henry Jenner (1904) + text-only version

• Sketch of Cornish grammar by Edwin Norris (1859)

• The preverbal particle re in Cornish by G. P. Williams (1908)

• Dolly Pentreath, the last known person who spoke the Ancient Cornish as her mother tongue, by Frederick Jago, in The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall (1882)


• books & papers about the Cornish language: Google books | Internet archive | Academia | Wikipedia

News

• BBC: An Nowodhow, the news in Cornish

• Radyo an Gernewegva

Texts & Literature

• Cussel an Tavas Kernôwek: Cornish texts

• Wikisource: Cornish texts

• An Bibel kernewek: translation of the Bible into Cornish (extracts)


• Cornish hymns: hymns and carols translated into Cornish, by Ken George

• Translating a Welsh hymn into Cornish (O tyred i'n gwaredu, Iesu da) (2021)


• Lyver Pysadow Kemyn: The Book of Common Prayer in Cornish (1980)

• Specimens of Cornish provincial dialect by William Sandys (1846)

• The Ancient Cornish drama in Cornish and translated into English by Edwin Norris (1859): I & II

• Origo Mundi - Passio Christi - Resurrexio Domini: The Ordinalia is a trilogy written in Middle Cornish (probably late 14th century)

• Sketch of Cornish grammar

• Ancient Cornish vocabulary

• The Creation of the world (Gwreans an bys), a Cornish mystery (1611) in Cornish & translated into English by Whitley Stokes (1863)

• Mount Calvary or The history of the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, written in Cornish, by John Keigwin (1682) published by Davies Gilbert (1826)

• Beunans Meriasek, The life of Saint Meriasek, bishop and confessor, a Cornish drama, in Cornish & translated into English by Whitley Stokes (1872)

• Beunans Meriasek (The life of Saint Meriasek): manuscript (1504)

• Beunans Ke (The life of Saint Ke): manuscript (~1500)

First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Yma pub den genys frank hag equal yn dynyta hag yn gwyryow.
Ymons y enduys gans reson ha keskans hag y tal dhedhans omdhon an eyl orth y gela yn sperys a vredereth.


→ First article in different languages

Some Cornish words
Kernow Cornwall, Cornish (unhabitant)
Kembra Wales
keltek Celtic
bro country
konna tir peninsula
Pow Sows England
Sowsnek English
my a gar Kernow I love Cornwall
nos da ! good night!
my a'th kar I love you

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