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    Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language. The earliest surviving texts are in verse and date from the 14th century. There are...
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  • important part of Cornish identity, culture and heritage. Since the revival of the language, some Cornish textbooks and works of literature have been published...
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  • The Cornish dialect (also known as Cornish English, Anglo-Cornish or Cornu-English; Cornish: Sowsnek Kernowek) is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall...
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    needed] A popular Cornish literature, centred on the religious-themed mystery plays, emerged in the 14th century (see Cornish literature) based around Glasney...
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    Cornish people. Some Cornish writers have reached a high level of prominence, e.g. William Golding, who won the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1983), D. M...
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    of Jack the Giant Killer.[citation needed] The earliest Cornish literature is in the Cornish language and Cornwall produced a substantial number of passion...
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    The Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall and a recognised...
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  • list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because...
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    Identifying the last native speaker of the Cornish language was a subject of academic interest in the 18th and 19th centuries, and continues to be a subject...
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  • a Cornish poet, dramatist, novelist, editor, academic and teacher. He was the author of a number of works on Cornish and Anglo-Cornish literature. Kent...
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    Ordinalia (redirect from Cornish Ordinalia)
    plays dating to the late fourteenth century, written primarily in Middle Cornish, with stage directions in Latin. The three plays are Origo Mundi (The Origin...
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    Examples of Cornish Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age structures are Chûn Quoit, Boscawen-Un and Chysauster Ancient Village. First Cornish hedges. Mining...
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    1692 – 26 December 1777) was a Cornish fishwife from Mousehole. She is one of the last known fluent speakers of the Cornish language. She is also often credited...
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    Danmonians that I spake of is now commonly called Denshire, [or] by the Cornish-Britains 'Dewnan', and by the Welsh Britains 'Duffneint' [sic], that is...
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  • allowed Cornish to be reconstructed by a small group of Celtic enthusiasts in the 20th century as part of the Celtic Revival. These Cornish language...
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    being British Crown Dependencies). This includes literature in Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Latin, Cornish, Anglo-Norman, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Manx, and Irish...
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    Englyn (category Cornish literature)
    Englyn (pronounced [ˈɛŋ.lɪn]; plural englynion) is a traditional Welsh short poem form. It uses quantitative metres, involving the counting of syllables...
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    of the districts of each stannary. The Cornish stannaries were suspended in 1496, the year before the Cornish Rebellion of 1497. Henry VII restored them...
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    Pasty (redirect from Cornish pastie)
    A pasty (/ˈpæsti/) or Cornish pasty is a British baked pastry, a variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, but has spread all over the...
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    Kresen Kernow (Cornish for Cornwall Centre) in Redruth, United Kingdom is Cornwall's archive centre, home to the world's biggest collection of archive...
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  • Dumnonia (category Articles containing Cornish-language text)
    survives today in the name of the county of Devon (Modern Welsh: Dyfnaint, Cornish: Dewnans, Breton: Devnent). There is evidence, based on an entry in the...
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    Fisherman's Friends (category Cornish folk music groups)
    February 2011. Gifford, Ralph (7 February 2011). "Ship comes in at last for Cornish folk singers". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 February 2001. "The...
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    Cornwall (category Articles containing Cornish-language text)
    -wəl/; Cornish: Kernow; Cornish pronunciation: [ˈkɛrnɔʊ]; or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised by Cornish and Celtic...
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  • The Cornish language revival (Cornish: dasserghyans Kernowek, lit. ''resurrection of Cornish'') is an ongoing process to revive the use of the Cornish language...
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    Cornish devolution is the movement to increase the governing powers of the County of Cornwall. In 1066, much of Cornwall was invaded by the Normans and...
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  • literature British literature Cornish literature English literature Manx literature Jèrriais literature Scottish literature Scots-language literature...
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    modern context literature in the English language by writers of Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Scottish or Breton extraction. Literature in Scots and Ulster...
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  • Specimens of Middle Cornish texts are given here in Cornish and English. Both texts have been dated within the period 1370–1410 and the Charter Fragment...
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    Broiler (redirect from Cornish-Rock)
    semen into the vagina. Modern commercial broilers, for example, Cornish crosses and Cornish-Rocks,[citation needed] are artificially selected and bred for...
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    Gorsedh Kernow (Cornish Gorsedd) is a non-political Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic...
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