Re: Cornish

From: mg (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 07:32:48 EST


I should _not _advise trusting any material cited by Ethnologue (SIL),
without checking elsewhere. Cornish speakers may be few, but their
children are growing up now, with Cornish as their mother tongue, as
surely as Hebrew speakers are in Israel.
mg

Arsa Otto Stolz:

> <http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Unit.html#CRN> says:
> CORNISH [CRN] 150 fluent speakers (1990 Wall Street Journal).
> A few thousand have studied it... No mother tongue speakers

--
Marion Gunn
Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.indigo.ie/egt/>



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