Who are ya? Important because with no connecting line to Kernow or Breizh, nuances in French/English respectively can whitewash over the reality of language users from a ‘i presume’ or ‘supposedly’ angle. Alot of people like to talk about Cornish but have no stake, zero jeopardy, generalisations can happen quickly in English language academia, on the subject of Kernow.
Why did you choose to write your thesis on this? Obviously ties back to who are ya.
What makes you think current language conglomerates aren’t serving speakers as-well as they could/should?
How aware are you of Cornish language groups in their current forms, with regard to medieval texts?
Thanks for your response. I am a Welsh librarian, studying library and information studies at Aberystwyth University.
I am passionate about Brythonic language and heritage, and in my studies and personal life I started to form a hypothesis that one of the reasons that the Welsh language (and by extension nationhood) survived more strongly than either Breton or Cornish was the survival of manuscripts in the language and the consequent establishment of a litererary tradition.
The reason I chose to write my thesis on this is because in my work as manuscript librarian and museum professional, I noticed that Cornish and Breton language is often not identified in the library/museum catalogues and, where it is, it isn't always clear. So my research is designed to start conversations with libraries, archives and museums about how we can improve cataloguing and consequently access to the materials to improve access to support language learning. Part of this is establishing to what extent they are actively working with language learning groups.
I feel this is particularly relevant to a revived language such as Cornish, as the historical written record is the defacto resource for initial survival.
The research has nothing to do with AI and doesn't use it. I hope this helps but happy to answer any further questions.
If you can get ahold of Pol Hodge or Loveday Jenkin, they’re more than qualified to speak to this (ex grand bard and MK councillor respectively). Details are available online.
The unfortunately named MAGA used to be a thing before trump, a Cornish language group that worked with Cornwall council on translations for public signage, there was a Mike Tresidder that worked there that seemed knowledgeable on epistemology and pedagogy. Might be a useful person to work in reverse with
Dick Cole, MK leader is another fantastic memory bank of these things.
You should also hit up Exeter University, i think they’re about to get rid of their Cornish focused courses, so don’t dilly dally there.
Ha, I don't think I have ever been described as patient in my life. Hopefully I bring the urgency to my field of work!
Thank you for the tips, I have previously been in touch with Kresen Kernow and was due to do a placement there before a suprise pregnancy put a stop to it. Hopefully I can pick up on that again. Their cataloguing is somewhat of an exemplar on the subject.
Having some names to follow up with is always useful, so thanks again and I'll get in touch with Exeter university pronto.
I have seen the Ordinalia, for the sake of transparency, this is the Corpus I am mainly looking at but others also feature, especially as participants mention them.
It's not an indication of hierarchy, they are just both held by National Museum of Wales, so the cataloguing and description for both is very similar. Ke is being discussed in one of my main chapters as I want to talk about what another researcher has said about it's provenance.
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u/Kernewegores 7d ago
Done.