French village

Dear List-Members,

You're in for something off-topic now. I've decided to put our little
French-village story into Cornish. Now I know it's a natlang, but
unusual as it was resurrected from the dead. Some aspects of morphology
and lexicon are almost conlang in a way, as parts had to be meticulously
reconstructed. Though the trend nowadays is to use as little
reconstruction as possible and use attested forms where they are to be
found.

Gans gorhemmynadow a'n gwella,

Dan


"Long ago, in a quiet village in France, there lived a miller.  That
miller had three sons and two daughters.  The oldest son wanted to
become a
knight one day, but his father had no money to buy a horse.  The middle
son
wanted to become a monk, but the nearest monastery had no room for him.
The
youngest son didn't know what he wanted to do.  We don't know what the
daughters wanted, because stories in those days didn't talk about such
things."


Y'n Kernowek:

Yn termyn ues passys, yn treveglos vyan yn Pow Frynk, yth esa tregys
melyner. Dhe'n melyner ma esa try mab ha dew vyrgh. An cotha mab a venna
dos ha bos marhak yn termyn a dhue, saw nyns ues mona vyth dh'y das rag
may halla prena margh. An mab yn cres y oys a venna dos ha bos managh,
saw nyns esa managhty nessa tyller gwag ractha. Ny woya'n yowyncka mab
an pyth a venna gul. Ny wodhyn ny man an pyth a venna gul an myrhes,
drefen na wre deryvas whedhlow an oys na adro dhe'n taclow an par na.

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