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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 16:14:04 10/30/04 Sat In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "Revised FC Parliament" on 19:05:15 10/28/04 Thu I just fished out a Cornish dictionary and Primer, and the language looks like an interesting creature. The Cornish language seems to be one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages which includes Welsh, Breton and Cumbrian (now extinct, thank goodness). It doesn't look quite like Scots Gaelic, Irish or Manx (I think they're called the Goidelic group) and I suspect that this is because of the Nordic-Scandinavian influence on these languages (Norwegian and Manx, for example, are closer than Manx and the 'other' Celtic ones). In fact, from what it seems to me, the language looks more like Breton than the truly 'British' Celtic languges (although I suppose that the name "Breton" implies where the inhabitants of that part of France originally came from...). In light of this, might I suggest that, since Cornish nationalists (ha ha) seem to admit that Cornwall is too small to be a viable independent unit, but at the same time want to govern their own affairs according to the mores of their own people, perhaps we should invite the good people at Mebyon Kernow to join France rather than the FC? Perhaps we could pursuage the French government to give them DOM-TOM status as an island off Britanny? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:56:45 10/30/04 Sat In Portuguese, the word "Bretanha" applies equally to Great Britain and to (Little) Brittany. Brittany was colonised by people pushed out of Cornwall by pressures resulting from the Anglo-Juto-Saxon invasions. I gather that speakers of Breton and speakers of Welsh can still understand each other at least well enough to buy and sell onions. Speakers of Cornish should thus be able to do the same. And since the Bretons still have a somewhat dodgy relationship with France, perhaps we could invite them to join the UK as part of a joint province with Cornwall... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |