Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!bnl!valenz From: valenz@bnl.UUCP (Greg Valenzuela) Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts Subject: Re: Cornish Message-ID: <852@bnl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:28:21 EST Article-I.D.: bnl.852 Posted: Tue Jan 15 13:28:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 01:38:29 EST References: <767@reed.UUCP> <23@spar.UUCP> Organization: SUNY at StonyBrook Lines: 18 When I was in Britain this summer, I heard that the last native speaker of Cornish had died. If this is true, then the only surviving Cornish speakers would be University professors, on whom the responsibility falls for preserving the language. If this is not depressing enough, several people I talked to estimated that of all the Celtic languages, only Welsh had the chance of surviving well into the future. The reason for this is that Wales is more economically self-sufficient than, say Ireland or Scotland. Apparently more and more young people are leaving the poorer regions of Ireland and Scotland, where they might have spoken Gaelic, for the cities, where the common language is English. Anyway, at least we can count on these languages being preserved in folk music recordings, a good excuse for building up my collection of Celtic music. Greg Valenzuela USENET: ...!sbcs!bnl!valenz ARPANET: valenz@bnl