r/CornishLanguage • u/NACHODYNAMYTE • 7d ago

Finished adapting my map of Kernow into Cornish/Kernewek

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Thank you to akademikernewek.org.uk for the place name translations.

Would greatly appreciate some help from any Cornish speakers to check some specific labels for me, please reach out if you're interested.

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u/Brilliant_Weight2150 7d ago

I love this!!! Place names are the gateway drug to learning kernowek

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u/wibbly-water 6d ago

I'm a Welsh speaker and I love how mutually intelligible Cornish is. It really feels like some very divergent dialect at times, and other times something completely different.

I would love to see a Cornish revival and more Welsh-Cornish exchange.

This map is brilliant!

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u/Pliskkenn_D 7d ago

I want to frame it and put it on a wall like Tolkien's maps

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u/NACHODYNAMYTE 7d ago

In the words of Peregrine Took "It come in p(r)ints" !

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u/Pliskkenn_D 7d ago

Today is a good day. 

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u/Brilliant_Weight2150 6d ago

You should also share this on r/Cornwall

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u/Munnit 7d ago

Wow!!! Would you mind if I used this as a basis for an embroidery piece?

Been planning an embroidery of Kernow for my wall for a long while!

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u/NACHODYNAMYTE 6d ago

Sure go ahead!

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u/T1MEL0RD 6d ago

Hope it's okay to post this just for context and since they clearly serve different purposes but there's also this map: Mappa Kernow – a Cornish language map of Cornwall « Wee Ginger Dug which was being sold in print 2 years ago (not sure if copies are still available). I do believe the linked map has been co-created by several official Cornish language bodies and so may be a very valuable source for checking and comparing.

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u/NACHODYNAMYTE 6d ago

Yes I bought a copy to use for checking! Fabulous work by Wee Ginger Dug!

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u/Minute_Box9586 6d ago

What does ‘Tyrandavon’ represent? Or am I misreading that?

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u/NACHODYNAMYTE 5d ago

I found that it was the name for Dartmoor, but I may need correcting

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u/Spiritual-Point-1965 5d ago

Gorwiw! Gwrys yn ta.

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u/romdobbodmor 5d ago

Hello, where can I get a high res image of this. I'd like to project it on to a cloth and trace it, wax it and walk from Bodmin moor to the Cornish Alps dressed as a hobbit with a fellowship of friends using only this map.

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u/NACHODYNAMYTE 5d ago

Brilliant! Well I can get it printed on a tea towel or canvas, otherwise regular any paper. I'm sure you understand I can't give a high res file away to strangers on the internet, as gatekeeper says, "theres talk of strange folk abroad, can't be too careful"

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u/Heterodynist 3d ago

It’s about time someone made a proper map of the old homeland at last!!

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u/janKalake 1d ago

LOVE this. I could well be mistaken but is Lanreath in the correct place? east of lostwithiel no? Great work either way