11 Facts About Cornish dialect

Cornish dialect is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people.

The Cornish language is a Celtic language of the Brythonic branch, as are the Welsh and Breton languages.

Since the Norman language was the mother tongue of most of the English aristocracy, Cornish dialect was used as a lingua franca, particularly in the far west of Cornwall.

Many Cornish dialect landed gentry chose mottos in the Cornish dialect language for their coats of arms, highlighting its high social status.

Cornish dialect soldiers were used as scouts and spies during the war, for their language was not understood by English Parliamentarians.

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Large-scale 19th and 20th century emigrations of Cornish dialect people meant that substantial populations of Anglo-Cornish dialect speakers were established in parts of North America, Australia, and South Africa.

At least 23 Cornish dialect words have made their way into Australian English; these include the mining terms and.

Cornish dialect found that Scillonians spoke English similar to "Elizabethan English without a suspicion of Cornish dialect".

Anglo-Cornish dialect speakers are more likely than Received Pronunciation speakers in Cornwall to experience social and economic disadvantages and poverty, including spiralling housing costs, in many, particularly coastal areas of Cornwall, and have at times been actively discouraged from using the dialect, particularly in the schools.

Once it was noticed that many aspects of Cornish dialect were gradually passing out of use, various individuals and organisations began to make efforts to preserve the dialect.

Nevertheless, Ken Phillipps's 1993 Glossary of the Cornish Dialect is an accessible reference work which does include details of grammar and phonology.