The Death and Revival of Cornish
How a language dies — and how it can come back to life
11 min readJun 1, 2021
“Me deskey Cornoack moas da more gen tees coath”
(I learnt Cornish going to sea with old men)
From a letter from William Bodinar to Daines Barrington, 1776, one of the last surviving written lines of traditional Cornish