The Cornish language

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1. Fatla genes? Cornish may not be the international language of business, but it has now been officially recognised by a European charter.

2. Cornish joins Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scots and Ulster Scots as protected and promoted languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority languages.

3. Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language descendent of the first celtic settlers to Britain. Since then, it's had three periods: Old Cornish, Middle Cornish and Late Cornish.

4. The world's first Cornish language feature film, Hwerow Hweg (Bitter Sweet) received its world premiere earlier this year.

5. There are thought to be only about 300 or 400 people fluent in Cornish, compared with about 70,000 British speakers of Scottish Gaelic, which is also spoken in Nova Scotia, Canada.

6. Welsh has also travelled overseas. The village of Trevelin in Patagonia, Argentina, was founded by Welsh settlers in the late 19th century, and Welsh is still taught alongside Spanish in some schools.

7. Breton is another Celtic language closely related to Cornish and Welsh, spoken in the north-west of France. So at least some British people can understand the French.

8. High profile supporters of the Cornish language include novelist Baroness Ruth Rendell and supermarket chain Asda, which has bilingual signs in its Cornish stores. The Duke of Cornwall, Prince Charles, is not known to speak Cornish but can speak Welsh.

9. And, in case you need to you need to ask where the toilet is in a St Ives souvenir shop, Cornish and the other Celtic languages are still taught all over the world.

10. (By the way, it's "Ple'ma an bysva?" So now you know.)