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Tag Masterpost

Places:

Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England, India, Cornwall, Sweden, Norway

Languages:

Cymraeg (Welsh), Gaeilge (Irish), Scots (Scots), Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic), Kernewek (Cornish), Svenska (Swedish), Norsk (Norwegian)

Other:

Ancestry, Festivals, Folklore, Languages, Music, Neurodivergency, Rainbow (LGBTQ+ related), Resources, Te Tiriti (Te Tiriti o Waitangi), Traditions, Vibes

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Jessica Kolopenuk, a scholar of Cree heritage, has used the traditional figure of the wiindigo to explore the increasing popularity of genetic genealogy today. “According to Nehiyaw, Anishinaabe, and other Indigenous tribal beliefs,” she explains, “the wiindigo or wetiko is understood to be a figure that personifies cannibalistic greed and hunger and, when left unstopped, is perpetually driven by its emptiness caused by disconnection.” This fearsome demon feels so empty, so cut off from human relationships, that it has an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Kolopenuk suggests that genetic genealogy companies are the modern equivalent of the wiindigo. They prey on people’s growing sense of social isolation and dislocation, their longing to understand who they are, and they lure people into surrendering bits of their human “flesh” (DNA samples) that both the company and the customers themselves “feast” on. For the testing firms, this feast takes the form of profits. For customers, the feast takes the form of pride and confidence in their own newfound identities. Indeed, they can “dine out” on their ancestral heritage, particularly if it carries prestige or novelty value. This is especially problematic, she argues, for customers who claim to have “Native American DNA” when they have no social or cultural links to Native peoples. In effect, she says, this is just the latest theft from indigenous peoples—the theft of their identities, the theft of their right to self-definition.

— Roots Quest: Inside America's Genealogy Boom by Jackie Hogan

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Cornish Language Resources

Learning

Gerlyver Kernewek - Online Cornish dictionary

Say Something In Cornish - Cornish lessons in podcast format

Tamm ha Tamm - Video series teaching simple conversational Cornish

GoCornish - Interactive Cornish resources for all ages

-> Memrise course (flashcards with audio)

-> Word Tango (puzzle app available in Cornish)

-> Kows ha Flows (listening materials with notes and vocabulary)

Kesva an Taves Kernewek - Cornish Language Board

-> KDL lessons (designed as a correspondence course but suitable for independent study)

-> Classroom resources (worksheets, activities, etc)

-> Skeul an Yeth - Free Cornish textbook

-> Past papers

Desky Kernowek - Cornish lessons in podcast format (Late Cornish)

-> This is an older site with a lot of dead links, but you’ll be pleased to hear their 24 audio lessons, their grammar notes and their in-depth guide to swearing in Cornish are all still fully functional.

Modern Cornish - Written lessons and texts in Late Cornish

Reading and Listening

Radyo an Gernewegva - Radio and TV in Cornish

An Nowodhow - Radio news bulletin in Cornish

Kernewek Bew - Website with a collection of video and audio in Cornish

Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek online shop  - Books for sale in and about Cornish

Agan Taves - Books for sale and for free in and about Cornish

An Gannas - Monthly magazine in Cornish

-> Dalleth - The puzzles from An Gannas on their own

Bibel Kernewek - The Bible in Cornish

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addendum:

Yeth an Werin Warlinen: facebook group for the weekly conversation group held through zoom. i co-host it so come say hi!!!

Dyski Kernowek: discord server owned by yours truly for discussing and learning Cornish

Skrol an Yeth: writings by one of my beautiful and wonderful friends Lianne whom you can also support on ko-fi

Taklow Kernewek and Stoff Kernewek: massive repositories of social, artistic, technological, and geographical resources

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On Cornish word order

One mistake other Celts specifically make when learning Cornish is starting normal sentences with verbs like they’re speaking Irish or Welsh (the big languages of the family). Verbs do not start normal affirmative sentences in Cornish. Let’s take ‘I will come home’* as an example.

Deuv vy tre is incorrect.

The normal word order in Cornish for affirmative sentences is SVO (subject-verb-object, as in English)**. So let’s amend it:

My a dheu tre.

Notice that the verb conjugates to the third person when it follows its subject.*** That’s My a dheu tre, not My a dheuv tre.

If you do want to use a VSO sentence, stick a Y in front (or yth before a vowel) and you’re dandy:

Y teuv vy tre.

Putting the verb first using y/yth emphasises it, like you’re dispelling a rumour or shouting affirmations at the mirror: I will, in fact, come home.

I will eat the cake: Debraf vy an desen. ❌ My a dheber an desen. ✅ Y tebraf vy an desen. ✅ An desen a dhebraf vy. ✅

I am tired: Ov vy sqwith. ❌ My yw sqwith. ✅ Yth ov vy sqwith. ✅ Sqwith ov vy. ✅

I’m going to bed: Esof vy ow mos dhe’n gwely. ❌ Yth esof vy ow mos dhe’n gwely. ✅

*If you’re wondering why deuv is future, the present/future tense almost always means the future. The present is normally expressed with the auxiliary ‘to be’: yth esof vy ow tebry (present) vs my a dheber (future). **unless you’re using the long form of bos. But this post is already long. ***There are exceptions to all of this post, but you should learn some sort of normal Cornish before you start being extra lol

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Basic Cornish Vocabulary: Greetings

Hello:

Yew! / Hou! Hi!

Dydh da! Hello! (”Good day!”)

Myttin da! Good morning!

Dohajedh da! Good afternoon!

Gorthugher da! Good evening!

Dynnargh dhis! Welcome! (s)

->Dynnargh dhywgh! Welcome! (pl)

How are you?:

Fatel os ta? How are you? (s)

->Fatel owgh hwi? How are you? (pl)

Fatla genes? How’s it going? (s)

->Fatla genowgh hwi? How’s it going? (pl)

Yn poynt da, meur ras. Really well/good, thank you.

Pur dha. Very well/good.

Pur dhrog. Very bad.

Splann. Splendid.

Euthyk. Awful.

Da lowr. Okay / All right.

Ha ty? And you? (s)

Ha hwi? And you? (pl)

Goodbye:

Nos da! Good night!

Duw genes! Goodbye! (”God with you!”) (s)

->Duw genowgh hwi! Goodbye! (”God with you!”) (pl)

Dha weles! See you! (s)

->Agas gweles! See you! (pl)

Lowena dhis: “Happiness to you”; hello or goodbye (s)

->Lowena dhywgh: “Happiness to you”, hello or goodbye (pl)

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Huge gender possibilities for "sé" meaning both "he" and "it"

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Painted Brigid because ofc

This is my January monthly postcard if anyone wants one btw! Sign up here before February 6th

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Ireland postage stamp: green Gerl

c. 1971

designed by Heinrich Gerl

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All the gifs about selkies

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An Intro To Indian Dishes, by BuzzFeed India

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INDIA. Uttar Pradesh. Agra. Taj Mahal. 1985 // Raghu Rai

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you wear an ancestor’s face

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Cornish Language Resources

Learning

Gerlyver Kernewek - Online Cornish dictionary

Say Something In Cornish - Cornish lessons in podcast format

Tamm ha Tamm - Video series teaching simple conversational Cornish

GoCornish - Interactive Cornish resources for all ages

-> Memrise course (flashcards with audio)

-> Word Tango (puzzle app available in Cornish)

-> Kows ha Flows (listening materials with notes and vocabulary)

Kesva an Taves Kernewek - Cornish Language Board

-> KDL lessons (designed as a correspondence course but suitable for independent study)

-> Classroom resources (worksheets, activities, etc)

-> Skeul an Yeth - Free Cornish textbook

-> Past papers

Desky Kernowek - Cornish lessons in podcast format (Late Cornish)

-> This is an older site with a lot of dead links, but you’ll be pleased to hear their 24 audio lessons, their grammar notes and their in-depth guide to swearing in Cornish are all still fully functional.

Modern Cornish - Written lessons and texts in Late Cornish

Reading and Listening

Radyo an Gernewegva - Radio and TV in Cornish

An Nowodhow - Radio news bulletin in Cornish

Kernewek Bew - Website with a collection of video and audio in Cornish

Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek online shop  - Books for sale in and about Cornish

Agan Taves - Books for sale and for free in and about Cornish

An Gannas - Monthly magazine in Cornish

-> Dalleth - The puzzles from An Gannas on their own

Bibel Kernewek - The Bible in Cornish

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Bestys yn Kernewek “Beasties in Cornish”

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LGBTQ Terminology in the Celtic Languages

As it is LGBTQ History Month in the United Kingdom, here at the Association of Celtic Students of Ireland and Britain, we wanted to take a m

Lists of Queer terms in various Celtic languages!

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Selkie/sealwoman statue in Mikladalur, Faroe Islands

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Áine, Irish goddess of summer and sovereignty. Strongly associated with county Limerick.