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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: Cornish
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 19:12:05 EST
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Where did you ever locate such a thing as a Cornish grammar? Good luck
finding living speakers...

I recently located a Breton grammar (for english speakers). Unfortunately,
most introductory texts for Celtic languages are frightfully incomplete.
As a minimum, I'd hope to find accurate phonetic transcriptions for
every word presented. 

Texts concerning Celtic languages are so hard to find! (my grammar is
apparently out of print) It's a pity this newsgroup isn't used for the
purpose implied by its name.

I'd enjoy hearing anything about Cornish, such as a description of its
orthography, phonemes, initial consonant mutations, syntax and grammatical
peculiarities, comparison with other Celtic languages, etcetera.

-michael