[Script Info]
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[Events]
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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good evening, I’m Elizabeth and I live in Cornwall
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.00,0:00:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m Cornish and I speak the Cornish language. I’m a Cornish speaker.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.00,0:00:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother was learning Cornish at evening classes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.00,0:00:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she came home and taught me and my brother to speak the language.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then my father learnt it too.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we all spoke the language together at home
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we were eating together and so on, ‘pass me the salt’ etc.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.00,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we went to lots of events together, like Cornish Language Weekends
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These events were for people who wanted to learn Cornish
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I remember going there with my brother
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and playing with all the other children who were learning Cornish.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a large group of us in those days,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all those children have now grown up, like me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of them are having children of their own now
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that’s the next generation of people learning Cornish as children
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from their childhood. So that’s very good.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The language did die out, about two hundred years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but after a hundred years of nobody speaking it as a community language
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people began to revive it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over the last century more and more people have learnt it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I wanted to return to Cornwall and do something, I didn’t know what
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was in the right place at the right time
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in 2002 Cornish was recognised as an official language
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the first time ever
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was funding, some money for the language.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of that there were some new jobs, to do things with the language,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was the second person to get a job developing the language.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was a language officer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now, well, I live in Truro, here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.00,0:02:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t work with the language any more
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t earn my living from it, but I still do things like this. (2.46)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.00,0:02:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tonight I am leading a Yeth an Werin (conversation group) with some people who are learning Cornish
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.00,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some who are more fluent.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.00,0:02:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes there are lots of us, other times there aren’t so many,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but people come every fortnight to chat together.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I lead this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.00,0:03:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also I present a radio programme, ‘The News’ on BBC Radio Cornwall,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the only programme in Cornish on an official radio station.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.00,0:03:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s another programme but that’s only available online.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.00,0:03:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides that, well, I work at Truro Cathedral
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.00,0:03:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have a cat. My cat is called Ted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have a partner called Ross.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah, that’s all from me, I think. I can’t remember, I can’t think of what else to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah, that’s all. Goodbye!