ABSTRACT
Domains of Usage Cornish is a remarkable language in that, after being defunct throughout the nineteenth century, it has been revived, and is now spoken by a growing band of enthusiasts. Many scholars have hitherto ignored Revived Cornish, because, being in the business of comparative philology. they are interested only in the traditional language. Some (for example, Wakelin 1975, Price 1984) have adopted an unnecessarily scornful attitude: a few, notably the late Professor Leon Fleuriot, have supported the language movement and actually tried to converse in Cornish. For those concerned in language planning, however, Revived Cornish is of great interest; a formerly dead tongue which is now once more alive, it has also attracted the attentions of the sociolinguists (Jolly 1987).
