CORNWALL: It is almost unnecessary to observe, that the ancient Cornish language has long been obsolete. It appears to have been gradually disused from the time of Henry VIII . , but it was spoken in some parts of the country till the eighteenth century . Modern Cornish is now an English dialect, and a specimen of it is here given. Polwhele has recorded a valuable list of Cornish provincialisms, and a new glossary has recently been published, in ‘ Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect,' 8vo . 1846. SOURCE: Halliwell, James Orchard. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words: Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. 2 vols. London, 1847.
The first page of Vocabularium Cornicum, a 12th-century Latin-Cornish glossary
Cornish: a critically endangered (or extinct) minority language?
Image 2: 1st page of Vocabularium Cornicum, a 12th-century Latin-Cornish glossary.
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