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Name:
Cornish
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Bororo; Kernowek; Kernewek; Curnoack
Spoken in:
United Kingdom
Number of speakers:
Some under 20 years are L1 speakers. 500 use Cornish; about 100 others who speak fluently (2003). Ethnic population: 468,425 (1991 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
600
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
cor
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Cornish (cnx)
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Cornish
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