Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A cornish speaker in 2015

  en.wikipedia.org/…/File:WIKITONGUES-_Elizabeth_sp…

  I keep trying to match it to any language that I know, and just draw a blank. Celtic dialects(which I think this is?) broke off about 300 years earlier from the main Indo-European branch than Germanic dialects did, and the divide is real.

  I wonder if Irish/Scottish/Gaelic speakers can pick out anything

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  • me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t mean to be rude but isn’t Cornish an extinct language with only 400-500 modern native speakers? That said it is kind of dumb for them to put Welsh in Cornwall. Feels like they are digging themselves a hole. Though I do wonder if there are more Welsh speaking people in Cornwall then Cornish?

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s pretty much what she said in the video. I have mixed feelings about reviving languages that had been dead more than a century, as I get strange nationalist tingles at the back of my neck.

      But if they’re doing it for fun, then that’s fine

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  • GreyShuck@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder if Irish/Scottish/Gaelic speakers can pick out anything

    Those are from the Q-celtic branch. Cornish, Breton and Welsh are P-celtic. They are pretty different.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • ns1@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I enjoyed this video, it’s funny because the Cornish accent is the same in Cornish as it is in English

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