Children given Cornish storybooks
A series of Cornish language storybooks for children have been written.
The picture books, written by Cornish author Will Coleman, are based in the fictional village of Porth.
Through a Bookstart partnership every Year 3 child in the county will receive one free copy of one of the six titles.
"These stories and their accompanying DVD have been piloted at both Lanlivery and Marlborough Primary Schools with great success," said Jenefer Lowe, development manager for the Cornish Language Partnership.
"Everyone who has read the books, including pupils, non-specialist staff and parents, have all responded with enthusiasm."
The storybooks - which feature a whole range of the village's inhabitants, including seagulls, crabs, teachers and boats - were illustrated by Brian Hoskin and Emma McCann.
This is interesting but whether there is enough interest in this language which has not been spoken for over a century we will have to wait and see.
4 comments:
I think it's great to keep a language alive if possible. Here in France as in Wales there are classes soley for this purpose. My neighbours speak the local "dialect" and i understand a lot. A language is a living thing, it evolves, it's good to pass it on. Debs x
What an excellent idea. I do hope this triggers new interest in the language.
lehners in france: There is a lively enthusiastic movement of enthusiasists here and after all everyone knows KERNOW is the cornish for CORNWALL so that is a start.
welshcakes:I think it is a good idea too.
Thats Brilliant!! I once was in Germany and I met a man. I asked him his nationality, he said "I'm Cornish" There is a lovely little phrasebook called ' Da mihi manum ' you can get it on amazon.co.uk On one side of the book it has the 3 Gaelic languages, on the other it has your 3 ( Welsh Cornish, and Breton ) The only thing is, there is no english translation of the phrase, so unless you speak one of the Celtic languages, you're at a complete loss. By the way,(if I havnt said this before) We're the only two bloggers out of the millions, who said we like the Whistlebinkies!
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