Cornish may have hung on a lot longer than 'Dolly Pentreath', the last
recorded native speaker. Fairly late in the C19, I believe, people were
recorded as being able to understand, but not speak Cornish.
I've never understood the logic of this, but then, I'm Cornish!
Dick
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From: "Michael Messenger" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:28 AM
Subject: Re: Snowdon Copper Mines
> Just bear in mind there were no Cornish-language speakers by the 1850s.
> The language was dead by then.
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> Michael Messenger
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