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<b><a name="content"></a>Spelling row could see Cornish go west <br><br>
</b><font size=2>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.<br><br>
But there is one stumbling block: Cornish speakers cannot agree on how
their language should be spelt.<br><br>
Three main groups who have driven forward the revival of Cornish are at
loggerheads over how the language should be written.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<a name="article_continue"></a>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</font>.<br><br>
Read more at:<br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1534588,00.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1534588,00.html<br>
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Mag. Stephen Miller<br>
Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften <br>
Austrian Academy Corpus<br>
Sonnenfelsgasse 19/8, A-1010 Wien, Austria.<br><br>
Tel. +43-1-51581-2280 Fax +43-1-51581-2339<br>
WWW
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