Re: Nur-ellen in the world of Brithenig

"Jörg Rhiemeier" wrote:

> I guess that Kerno was officially held to be a dialect of Brithenig
> until a few decades ago, while in fact it is a language of its own.  Are
> Brithenig and Kerno mutually intelligible or not?
Um.  There really is no fact of the matter about it.  Are High and Low
German mutually intelligible, or not?  The best we can say is that
Kernow is diglossic, with Brithenig the H language (education,
technical writing, radio, etc.) and Kernu the L language (household
talk, traditional poetry, etc.).

Kernowmen think of Brithenig as "la Mistarista" (the mixed-up one).

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