As a youngster growing up in the clay country I had no idea that the Cornish language even existed. It is only as an adult, as I raise my own children, that a sense of identity has become more important to me and that motivated me to find out whether language classes were available locally. When I asked the question I had no idea how the revival of the language has progressed in the last thirty years and how accessible classes, teachers and literature were. I started studying in 2007 and have taken grades 1, 2 and 3. I am currently studying for grade 4 which involves not only study of the ancient texts, but also requires a demonstration of a knowledge of the history of Cornwall, which I thought I knew pretty well, but I now realise is much more complicated and interesting than I used to think. [Written August 2010].
Pan en vy yonker, ow tevi y’n Pow-Pri, ny wodhyen vy travyth yn kever bosva an Yeth Kernewek. Lemmyn, dre wologva tevesik, ha magav vy ow fleghes ow honan, klywes a honanieth re dheuth ha bos poesekka dhymmo, ha henn a’m kennerthas hwilas mar pe klassow kavadow yn teythyek. Pan wrug vy govynna yndella, nyns esa dismyk vyth dhymm yn kever an myns a avonsyans re beu dhe’n Yeth dres an deg warn ugens blydhen yw passys, ha kavadowder a glassow, dyskadoryon ha lyenn. My a dhallathas studhya yn 2007 hag y hwrug vy gradhow 1, 2 ha 3. Yth esov vy ow studhya orth gradh 4 lemmyn, ha ganso studhyans an henskrifow, ynwedh, res yw diskwedhes godhvos istori Kernow a dybyn vy my dh’y wodhvos re dha, mes lemmyn, my a aswonn bos ev komplettha ha moy dhe-les es dell dybyn vy. [Skrifys Mis Est 2010].langbot langbot