Our Cornish language is so far weakened that we can hardly hope to see it strengthen again, for as did the Saxons first send it to this narrow land, thus it is still pressing against it without allowing it any place at all, but around the coast and the sea. All it is spoken now is almost from Land's End to St Michael's Mount, and towards St Ives and Redruth, and again from the Lizard towards Helston and Falmouth:
Agan tavas Kernowek yw mar bell gwadnhes, es na ellyn skant gwaytyas dh'y weles krefhe arta, rag pekar dell wrug an Sowson y dhanon e'n pow ydn ma an kensa, andelna yma stella ow tegi warnodho, heb gara dhodho teller veth bus a-dro dhe'n als ha'n mor. Oll ywa va klappyes lebmyn ogasti yw dhort Pedn an Wlas dhe'n Garrek Loos, ha tu ha Porth Ia ha Resrudh, hag arta dhort an Lesard tu ha Hellys hag Aberfala:langbot langbot