My children attended a 'taster session' in the local library and are really looking forward to being taught the language in their school after this Summer. Most other children are as well.
Well done on this agreement !

Bryn M, Redruth, Cornwall,

I think that it is a real cause for celebration. Well done to all who have worked so hard to come to an agreement and to reinstate what was lost. Of course Cornish was spoken by the vast magority of people living in that area. It is so closely related to Welsh and Breton.

David Petersen, Carmarthen,

Love it. As a fractious, argumentative ex-pat Cornishman myself, only we could argue for years about the proper form of a language hardly any of us speak.

still, I'm all for showing our heritage through Standard Cornish – may the harmony last until next week, when we fall out about something else!

Kevin, London, United Kingdom

Teaching The Cornish Language to children will be one of the biggest waste of time and tax payers money. It is a dead language and only spoken if at all in cornwall so it is useless in the wider world. Teach children more useful languages like Chinese, French etc

James, Leicester,

They can throw/ waste as much money on trying to bring back this little used language. Sadly much of todays Cornish language is based on modern Welsh.
Instead of wasting money on this - surely it's better to invest in modern languages.
I have never heard Cornish spoken in the county.

Jack, Redruth, England

Glad to finally see some time and money well spent on something TRULY indiginous and British. From small acorns . . .

Lucas, Herts., uk

C Weatherhill, I hate to burst your bubble, but the Celtic languages aren't "indigenous" to the British Isles as you claim. They are descended from Indo-European and once flourished on the Continent. Don't forget - everyone was new here once.

John F, London,

The article makes out that the split is centuries old. It isn't. A bunch of folk fell out in the ->1980s<-.

"The Cornish language is an artificial invention and so is Cornish identity "

British identity is a construct too. American identity even more so. English nearly died out in Norman times

Ray, Edinburgh, Scotland/Alba

" They should be learning Mandarin or Arabic, not this stuff."

If British schoolchildren are unable to learn CLOSELY RELATED languages such as French and German, properly, how do you propose they do this?

I say good on the Cornish - they're getting their self-respect back.

Ray, Edinburgh, Scotland/Alba

At last, now we can get on with the business of seeing Kernow becoming a dual language nation as in Wales they being our closest relatives.

Henry, Newquay,

Cornish has never been a dead language having always had speakers and writers at home and worldwide. It is almost as close as a dialect to Breton which had more than two million speakers in 1900 and has hundreds of thousands today. Some fishermen were using Cornish words and phrases in 1949.

John, Redhill,

Well, thanks a lot, C. Weatherhill. I'm English through and through, but before today I'd never realised that there was a race specifically associated with red hair & blue eyes, like mine. I've felt like such a mongrel for years, that it was kind of nice to see it recognised as a legitimate combo.

Sophie, Aberystwyth,

Please don't do this to Cornwall. It's a beautiful place already so don't act like the Welsh and start being stupid about a language nobody needs or uses.

Neil, Birmingham, U.K

It is a dead language. This should be accepted. Scholars may study the old/ancient texts, but noone will ever know what it truly was. Regionalist pride is dangerous at best. Leave it where it belongs and learn a language in use. The dead cannot be revived, neither can a language.

Mark, Nee Cornwall, Non UK

It is thoroughly unhelpful to children to sabotage their education by occupying their learning time and energy in teaching them a dead language that will be of less use to them when they grow up than would teaching them Elvish or Klingon. They should be learning Mandarin or Arabic, not this stuff.

Liam, Stoke, UK

Any chance of some links? I started to look into the language a few years ago, but was frustrated by the lack of resources. If it's easier to learn the language now, I want to. Where can you get hold of those DVDs mentioned?

Exile, Nottingham,

That's all anybody says to anything any more; 'How much does it cost the taxpayer!?' !!!

If any of you have lived in Cornwall (which i did during my Primary School years and early teens), you will know that Cornwall is a magical place, deserving the revival of it's own language.

Rebecca, Crewe,

Yes Steve of Torrington, we should forget all about this because of the small % of the population who cant trace their family back 20 generations. People who migrate and especially their children can absorb culture and become cornish - or should black/asian/polish etc people not integrate either?

Mark, St Just, Cornwall

The project was financed by a grant from the EU, not from UK funds. Although indirectly it is still (partly) UK taxpayers money, that's true.

paul, st austell, kernow

A great step in the right direction for Kernow. Will be great to see it used more across the country on road signs ect.

Well done to all those involed!

Kernow Bys Vyken!

Tom, Porthleven, Kernow

What a great story - and what a typical reaction from the rest of the country. Having lived in the west country for several years, I have seen at first hand the arrogant sense of superiority that accompanies the monied holiday-homers who invade at Easter each year. Good on the Cornish!!

Marco, Basildon,

To set the historical record straight: the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion started in Devon; Cornwall was already two-thirds English-speaking; and a Cornish prayer book wasn't on the agenda - all they wanted was a return to the pre-Reformation Latin rite (which of course hardly anyone could understand).

Alan, Cambridge,

"We have been here at least 6 millenia" because, of course, all those living in England came over with the Saxons, all those in Wales/Scotland/Cornwall were natives.
Don't be so stupid and idealistic, no-one truly knows who their ancestors were!

Ann , Swindon ,

Having a Celtic ancestry doesn’t make you Celtic – if it did then more or less the entire population of England, Western Europe, Southern Europe and (of course) all the people descended from immigrants originating in these historically Celtic regions in the Americas etc are just as Celtic.

Calum, Glaschu, Alba

Will Northumbria become “Celtic” again if some small groups decide to invent their own Celtic dialect using the historical sources we have in the form of Old Welsh spoken in northern England/Southern Scotland 1000-15000 years ago?

Calum, Glaschu, Alba

The Cornish language is an artificial invention and so is Cornish identity and the proponents of both are simply Englishmen in denial (something which, in the interests of fairness, I would also say about all non-Welsh speaking Welshmen and non-Gaelic speaking Scots and Irish).

Calum, Glaschu, Alba

"How much did this cost the taxpayer?" - guess what, Cornish people pay taxes too. The single written form will hopefully be a great leap forwards. The Cornish language will soon be taught in several Cornish schools.

Jon, Truro, Cornwall

Cornish died out because the Latin Prayer Book was replaced by and English version, 'provoking a revolt by people who spoke only Cornish'. Why would they have cared, as they didn't speak Latin either.

David Leslie, Perth, Scotland

People expressing negative comments about the resurgance of the Cornish do so out of their own bitterness and lack of cultural identity. Personally, I pity them.

Kernow Bys Vyken!

Gareth Ellery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear

To those questioning the spending of public money on this, I would say that any money is more than offset by the upkeep of the Duke of Cornwall by the Cornish, through the de jure Government of the Duchy of Cornwall, saving the English crown millions! see www.duchyofcornwall.eu

Charles M, Plymouth, Cornwall

"What nonsense this is. '...a stronger sense of Cornish identity.' What, for all the Midlanders and Londoners who now live there?"

No it is for the indigenous Cornish, of which I am one. If the midlanders and londoners don't like it then they know what to do.

Nigel, Redruth, Kernow

Now this is what I expect from this country, interesting, fun and teaching people new things.
Why cant we have more things like this happening?

Jon, Edinburgh,

Now they have agreed on the language, will they stop stoning Rick Stiens? (And the property of anyone else considered an "emmet".) Or will this mean another round of nonsense from the Cornish Liberation Army, more broken glass on the beaches, and more "incommers" property burned down.

Big Ger, Truro, England

The Cornish/Tibetans are entirely right to seek to protect,value and nourish their native culture and language in the face of hegemonist physical,institutional,cultural,exploitative and oppressive forces emanating from their more powerful imperialist neighbour.

Dr T Jackson, Truro, Kernow

I think the world needs more quixotic projects like this one. Better than bombing random countries. Yeghes da!

Don, Gyoda, Japan

I also have to question how much public money went into this.

You do realise that there are probably more people in the world speaking Klingon....

Darren, Norwich, UK

What typically Anglo-Saxon responses. The English have been in these islands for 1500 years. We have been here for at least six millenia. Cornish, along with Welsh and the defunct Cumbrian, is descended from the indigenous Celtic language of these islands and is part of British heritage.

c.weatherhill, penzance, kernow

There has been a large resurgence over the last couple of years amongst the youth in Cornwal creating a real cornish identity for themselves. The emergence of the Cornish mafia and Cornish nationalist proves this.

However I cannot really see Cornwall ever being too Cornish due to large influxes.

Jamie, Truro, Cornwall,

How much did this cost the taxpayer?

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

What nonsense this is. '...a stronger sense of Cornish identity.' What, for all the Midlanders and Londoners who now live there?

Steve, Torrington,