Cornish language is extinct

20/02/09 -

Linguists working on the 'Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger' have declared the Cornish language as extinct.

According to the experts at Unesco, the cultural section of the United Nations, the language died out as far back as 1777 which, for some strange reason, seems to have pissed off a fair amount of the backwards, nonsense-speaking yokels.

While there may be about 300 fluent Cornish speakers, none of them, it seems, have Cornish as a first language, so by definition, the language is defunct.

But Jenefer Lowe, development manager of the Cornish Language Partnership, said there were thousands who had a "smattering" of the language, although we're not sure grockles coming down and asking for a pasty really count.

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