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Phoenix from the Ashes: Reconstructed Cornish in relation to Einar Haugen’s four-step model of language standardisation
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Second-language speakers and learners

A few hundred learners/speakers of revived version

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"Unusually for a minority language, despite some use in a small number of families (Renkó-Michelsén in prep.), almost all Cornish speakers are adult learners. Some have passed it to their children – a few of whom maintain it as adults – but there are no unbroken ancestral links to the spoken vernacular. These speakers are the result of a centuries-long effort to rebuild an almost lost language, and with it a new language community."

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2015

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~600

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Ethnic Population

468,425

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"500 use Cornish; about 100 others who speak fluently (2003)." Data for the ethnic population is from the 1991 census.

Year of info

2009

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United Kingdom;

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Year of info

2005

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50.3333333333,-5.0

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Endangered

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600

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