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English is not the only indigenous language to England. There is also the Celtic language of Cornish, spoken in beautiful Cornwall. Let me tell you a little bit about it.
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Thanks to those who corrected my pronunciation of Mousehole. English place names are a joyous mess.
That’s a man baby!
English is not an indigenous language of England. That's the weirdest part.
It's the language of a bunch of Germans who later got invaded by a bunch of French.
Cornish is a dead language though
Some of the words have (obviously) found their way into modern Cornish slang. Like Dreckly , unspecified time in future
Wasson, shag “What are you up to, my friend”
I have heard Mousehole pronounced more like muzzle. I figured that was the local pronunciation.
Dorothy is quite the specimen
Welsh doesn’t have articles either. I took a year of it. I remember nothing except how to order a beer.
Cornwall is NOT a part of England. It has never been legally assimilated and still has the right to it's own Parliment. Also a lot of your facts are totally wrong
How was the language revived after it became extinct? If the last person to speak it died, how do the people who started speaking it afterwards know they were pronouncing words correctly?
Dorothy really do be Georgious Creature
Quite corny
I call my variant of English Senlaish (a portmanteau of my name and English). Heights of narcissism, eh… Interesting content.
they used to speak Danish in england lol
pretty bold to call English an indigenous language to so-called England
I hope Cornish survive
Fascinating video, and I had to comment how much I love the setting and the sound of seagulls in the background ♥️
Latin also has no "yes" & "no".
Ergo,Yoda was Cornish.
A young Alan Partridge.
Also English isn’t indegenous to England, it was brought initially by germanic invaders
His teeth are gorgeous
Don't forget Cumbric!
Is English really indigenous to England in the first place? Wouldn’t the indigenous languages be exclusively Celtic almost?
It's pronounced Mowzle. I'm Dutch and even I know.
English is killing your gains
Cornish is extinct. I think they tried to revive it by teaching it in schools.
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Hey so very true
We , well I always miss that
Thank you 😊
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
What about scouse lad?
This gorgeous creatuuuure….. ❤
After setting yourself up as someone interested in Cornish linguistics, it's disappointing to hear you mispronounce Mousehole like that
Gonn meur ras a’th gwytheo – splann ywa. (Thanks for your video – it’s great.) Minor correction: Dolly Pentreath was the last MONOGLOT speaker of Cornish. The last fluent speakers of both Cornish and English died about 1810, 30 or so years after Dolly passed on. Between 1810 and the formal launch of the revival, many people continued to use the language at a sub-fluent level (in songs, prayers, mottos etc.) The ‘death’ of a language is not usually a neat affair. Indeed, it is recorded that Cornish fisherman, regardless of the ‘revival’, continued to count in Cornish right up to the 1940’s when hauling in their nets. Pur goynt yw henna, a nyns ywa?🤔
It's so cute that he mentions casually that Breton is "actually spoken in parts of France", since that happened because the went there to flee the Anglo-Saxons (that is, the English), who were killing them.
what a sweet old little babushka creature
Also in Latin there isn't yes and no answer. same logic
How about some longer length videos on these other languages? One on Cornish, one on Welsh, one on Bretton?
Genuine question!
When you answer the question, "do you like fish and chips?" If you do you would reply "I do" but what would you reply with if you don't?
what about the Scots language?
No Celts in Britain it's a myth
Kerenewek and Pentraeth was pronounced incorrectly
i wonder, do any of the Celtic languages have yes and no? Irish, Welsh, and Cornish don't, at least
Learning Cornish is on my 'to do' list.
Mousehole, pronounced Mouzell, is a small village on the southwest Cornish coast. It has a tiny little port, and was used to smuggle contraband into Cornwall. I can see why they named it Mousehole simply because it has such a small hidden port, yes, just like a mouse hole, but the pronunciation with a British accent turned into Mouzell. It has a beautiful 2 km costal walking path to the next village, Penzance.
Also properly spoken English pronounces "all" 'R's and 'H's completely and clearly.