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How many people speak Cornish?

Graham Smith | 15:47 UK time, Sunday, 17 October 2010

this month went bilingual, and at the click of your mouse you can now read and hear stuff in Cornish as well as English. According to the partnership's latest its £212,000 budget falls 98% on the public purse, with only £5,000 from "earned" income.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    "£212,000 against how much for "Ulster Scots"?

  • Comment number 2.

    Marginally less than the great and good Mr Lavery, well slighty different Maga funding comes from central government.

  • Comment number 3.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 4.

    Cornish speakers are tax payers too. There are around 600 who speak it fluently and a few thousand who can speak it to some extent.

    For the amount of money that goes on artwork for quango buildings, duck houses, MPs partners' porn subscriptions and nuclear submarines that act as a deterrant against a band of hill dwellers with AK47s, I think £207,000 is very much small beans. And considering it rightly comes from central government, the Cornish resident pays a mere fraction of a penny. Which, as a taxpayer, I am only too happy to cough up to promote the language.

    Don't start targeting the language, you won't find a scapegoat there.

  • Comment number 5.

    I'm with Mr Tregantle. And I object to spending taxpayers money on quango buildings, duck houses, MPs porn subs AND linguistic hobbies. I quite like the nuclear subs though.

  • Comment number 6.

    Cornish speakers are tax payers too. There are around 600 who speak it fluently and a few thousand who can speak it to some extent.

    I suspect you are as usual over egging the pudding, even if it was several thousand this is a complete waste of money and offers nothing to Cornish in the way of employment in this harsh times, people should pay for these own hobbies out of there own pocket

    I agree with the majority here this is an utter waste

  • Comment number 7.

    Sensible comments, people are free to speech any language they wish, but I object to our funds being wasted in such a manner, in fact I will go further and insist English is the only language spoken and we remove all these multi-language leaflets which plague Britain, no other Country allows such behaviour and waste, one day English will be spoken across the globe

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