{"id":5402,"date":"2016-06-15T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2021-02-16T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T16:18:30","slug":"saving-the-cornish-language-kernewek-fights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/saving-the-cornish-language-kernewek-fights-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Cornish language: Kernewek Fights Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-653318980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-653318980.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-653318980-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-653318980-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-653318980-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-653318980-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<style>\nh2 {\nmargin: 3% 0 2% 1%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kernewek in Kernow<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was back home the other week, I was surprised&nbsp;to see the Cornish language supporters out in force at several major Maytime festivals. Back in the day, you wouldn\u2019t tend to see much <a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/en\/store\/learn\/cornish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornish language<\/a> at a public parade. In fact, back in the day, you could easily come to Cornwall and miss all the Celtic language completely, except for the odd place-name translated on road signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not so now! I go to a festival in London every year where all the Cornish ex-pats gather to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/kernow-bys-vyken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St Piran\u2019s Day<\/a>, and at this festival of modern music and comedy (no folk element to it), it\u2019s very normal for the presentation to be at least partly in Cornish. Last year, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/way-haul-away-sea-shanties-and-language-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival<\/a>, an entire group of about 20 people came into one of the pubs and were talking exclusively in Cornish, albeit with varying levels of fluency. And most Cornish people nowadays are at least familiar with the essentials- Mitten Da, Nos da, pasti, Fatla Genes, Kernewek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Putting Kernow back on the map!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So something\u2019s happened between when I was at school and now. And in large part it\u2019s down to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magakernow.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornish Language Partnership<\/a>, who have been promoting and supporting the Cornish language since 2005, coordinating languages societies, local authorities and other cultural groups. It also offers a translation service and online audio dictionary for all those eager learners. They\u2019ve put Cornish back on the map in a big way, and helped to standardise a language which, divided into many dialects, was actually officially dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news is that the Cornish Language Partnership relies a lot on government funding, and the government has recently cut \u00a3150,000 of annual funding for the Cornish language. This is terrible news for supporters of Cornish (and worrying news for other minority languages), and a <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/128474\" target=\"_blank\">petition<\/a> has been launched to reinstate the funding (with currently over 8,600 signatures).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1016049686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1016049686.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1016049686-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1016049686-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1016049686-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1016049686-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1016049686-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Not taking it lightly, me lovers!<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is that Cornwall\u2019s not backing down! A local (and well-loved) ice cream firm, Kelly\u2019s, has recently launched an advert all in Cornish (with the odd cheeky nod to English thrown in here and there). In the Kelly\u2019s ad, a young man extolls all the virtues of the Kelly\u2019s ice cream entirely in Kernewek &#8211; quite ambitious considering Cornwall only boasts about 2000 fluent speakers &#8211; yet the simple message of this ad is completely conveyed. Have a look for yourselves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0usmMfs5IY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re proud to do our bit to support the Cornish language &#8211; check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/en\/store\/learn\/cornish\">Cornish programs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernewek in Kernow When I was back home the other week, I was surprised&nbsp;to see the Cornish language supporters out in force at several major Maytime festivals. Back in the day, you wouldn\u2019t tend to see much Cornish language at a public parade. In fact, back in the day, you could easily come to Cornwall &#8230; <a title=\"Saving the Cornish language: Kernewek Fights Back!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/saving-the-cornish-language-kernewek-fights-back\/\" aria-label=\"More on Saving the Cornish language: Kernewek Fights Back!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[207,1577,1025,1174,23,209,2,1578,1488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}