Spelling row could see Cornish go west

[Stephen Miller]

Spelling row could see Cornish go west

The government money is on the table and the political will in 
Whitehall and Europe is apparently growing to help Cornish speakers 
turn their native tongue into a viable, living language.

But there is one stumbling block: Cornish speakers cannot agree on 
how their language should be spelt.

Three main groups who have driven forward the revival of Cornish are 
at loggerheads over how the language should be written.

The issue has become so divisive that yesterday two of the groups 
called for an independent panel of linguists to be appointed to 
referee the row.

A conference is being organised in September at which the warring 
factions will again try to agree on how Cornish - or, depending on 
your fancy, Kernewek, Kernowek, Kernuak or Curnoack - should be spelt.

Read more at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1534588,00.html

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Mag. Stephen Miller
Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Austrian Academy Corpus
Sonnenfelsgasse 19/8,  A-1010 Wien, Austria.

Tel. +43-1-51581-2280 Fax +43-1-51581-2339
WWW http://www.aac.ac.at/
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