FW: 13.2141, Media: Revived Cornish

[Nobukatsu Minoura]

I am forwarding a message from the LINGUIST list.

In the article in the BBC link below, it is stated that the UK's official
minority languages are:  Welsh, Gaelic (Scottish), Gaelic (Irish), Scots,
Ulster Scots.  And it is stated that Cornish will be added to the list this
fall.  How about BSL?  Is BSL really behind Cornish for the official
minority language status?  Or did the writer merely overlooked BSL?

Nobukatsu Minoura
Tokyo, Japan

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Date:  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:26:22 +0100 (BST)
From:  Michael Johnstone <mjj1000 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject:  Media: BBC: revived Cornish

Under the headline "Back from the dead: UK's new language", the BBC
News website talks about Cornish becoming an official language, and
the arguments about language purism - should they choose Modern
Cornish, Unified Cornish or Common Cornish as the standard?...

Some sound files of spoken Cornish are included.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2206191.stm

Michael Johnstone

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