Spelling row could see Cornish go west

[Marion Gunn]

Stephen veen,

I hope that doesn't happen!

Ony a couple of days ago (Friday, 29 July) I sat in on an exciting
computer session with Cornish people of all orthographic persuasions,
all of them interested in cooperating to produce the first text
processor in Cornish, complete with spellchecker.

Gow kiarail jeed hene.

Gans oll ow holon dheugh,
mg

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Foinse/source: CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG; Thu, 28 Jul 2005
05:26:11 -0400
From: Stephen Miller <Stephen.Miller at ASSOC.OEAW.AC.AT>:

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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