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  3. The Ancient Language, and the Dialect of Cornwall, with an Enlarged Glossary of Cornish Provincial Words
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2016
      October 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107294547
      9781108071666
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107294547
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 370 Pages
      • Subjects:
      European Language and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    European Language and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    The Cornish dialect stemmed from the influence of English on the declining Cornish language, and contained words from both languages. This glossary was published in 1882 by Frederick W. P. Jago (1817–92) in an effort to describe and preserve the dialect as it too declined. Containing around 3,700 dialect words from both Cornish and English, and annotated with examples, etymological information and literary citations, the work is an invaluable record of a disappearing dialect and way of life. The word list is supplemented by a history of Cornish and the Cornish dialect, showing similarities with the vocabulary of Chaucer, as well as with Welsh and Greek. Also included is an appendix with information about Dolly Pentreath, the last native speaker of Cornish, and a list of writers who had worked on the Cornish language and dialect. Jago's English-Cornish Dictionary (1887) is also reissued in this series.

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