Cornish started to die out about 500 years ago as the Anglo-Saxons slowly spread west A rise in learning apps and online classes as well as a project in schools is behind an increase in the number of ...

Kernewek, the Cornish language, is set to stand alongside Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic after the government recommended it for the highest level of protection available. Part III status under ...

NEWBRIDGE, ENGLAND — For a member of a supposedly extinct species, Craig Wetherill does a pretty good impression of the living. He responds to premature reports of his demise by launching into a local ...

GOVERNMENT integration officials spent more on Cornish language lessons than on English ones for struggling UK residents. Ensuring everyone can speak the national language is a key finding of Dame ...

Twenty one Cornwall primary schools have signed up to a Cornish language learning project Go Cornish, which was commissioned by Cornwall Council. Interest in learning the Cornish language increased ...

Any new road signs in Cornwall are in both English and Cornish Staff at Cornwall Council will now be encouraged to greet callers in Cornish. The council will train staff and wants to see the Celtic ...

For hundreds of years a band of scholars have fought to get the Cornish language recognised and revived in Britain, but they hit upon a major stumbling block when no-one could agree on how it should ...

Celtic dialects from across Britain are featured in a new atlas of the world’s dead and endangered languages. Manx and Cornish have been declared “extinct” languages and Scottish Gaelic and Welsh will ...