My age is sixty-five. I'm a poor fisherman. I learnt Cornish when I was a boy. I have been to sea with my father and five other men in a fishing boat. I heard scant a single word of English in the boat for a whole week. I never saw a Cornish book. I learnt Cornish going to sea with the old men. There are no more than four or five in our village who can talk Cornish now, old people, eighty years old. Cornish is all forgotten by the young people.
Bloodh vy yw trei ugens ha pemp. Yth erov vy den boghojek an puskes. My a wrug deski Kernowek [en] termyn [may] feu vy maw. My a veu dhe mor gen sira vy ha pemp den moy e'n kok. My a wrug skant lowr klowes udn ger Sowsnek kowsys e'n kok rag seythen war-barth. Na wrugav vy byskath gweles lever Kernowek. My a dheski Kernowek [ow] moas dhe mor gen tus koth. Nag eus moy avel pajar po pemp e'n drev nei a ell klappya Kernowek lebmyn, pobel koth, pajar ugens bloodh. Kernowek yw oll nakevys gen pobel yonk.langbot langbot