18-12-2022, 09:01 AM
(17-12-2022, 10:06 PM)cityprod Wrote:It was dead, it was classed as extinct until 2009. Its now got 3,500 native speakers and is 'critically endangered'. That number is after over a century of trying to revive it so it's probably not going to be as common as other celtic languages particularly considering the smaller population of Cornwall(17-12-2022, 11:24 AM)Kunst Wrote: Sorry but Cornish is basically dead, different situation to Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, it's no brainer!5,000 people would disagree with that. Yes, the media situation is very token. A weekly 5 minute bulletin on BBC Radio Cornwall, a 1 hour weekly programme on various Cornish community radio stations. That's about it at the moment. Pirate FM used to have a 2 minute bulletin in Cornish every weekend, but that finished when Matthew Clarke left the station. All in all, it's not a lot of support for a language that isn't dead, but isn't widely spoken.