Euronews

European Minority Languages: Meet the radio host trying to keep Cornish alive

There are 79 minority languages recognised by The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The charter covers many majority languages spoken in other countries, for example Polish speakers ...
The Daily Telegraph

Cornish has been granted a comeback

Let's kewsel Cornish again. Decades after it was thought to have been consigned to the scrapheap of history, the ancient Celtic language that is spoken fluently by only 100 people is making a ...
The Guardian

First Cornish TV ad to air weeks after language funding is axed

Family-run ice cream company will launch a prime-time ad featuring Kernewek, under threat following government cuts An ice cream company is to air the first Cornish language TV ad, weeks after the ...
Stylist

Diw loyas dhe’n lyha mar pleg! TV ad for ice cream to be first spoken entirely in Cornish

A wren ni kavos ken dehen rew?* Clue: answer yes to this question when summering in Cornwall. A television advert for ice cream is set to be broadcast entirely in the Cornish language. Said to be a ...
The Guardian

In the light of the current resurgence of the Welsh and Cornish languages, what was the last native language of the UK to die out before these were spared the same fate?

Two possibilities: Manx which is closely related to Irish Gaelic and was spoken in the Isle of Man and Norn which was spoken in Shetland until the 18th Century. Norn was related to Old Norse. Colin ...