Cornish Language/Pronunciation

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 * How to pronounce Cornish

Stress
Stress in Cornish is always on the penultimate syllable (the second to last). This even happens when syllables are added:

Example:
 *  Ker now 'Cornwall, a Cornishman'
 * Ker new ek 'the Cornish language'
 * kerne weg er, 'a Cornish speaker'
 * kerneweg or yon 'Cornish speakers'

There are some exceptions, these will be pointed out as they appear.

Vowel length
Before you can accurately pronounce Cornish, you need to know how to ascertain the length of the vowel. Cornish has rules for this so it is quite regular, but there are exceptions, which will need to be learnt separately.


 * All unstressed vowels are short.


 * In stressed words of one syllable, vowels are:
 * Long at the end of words
 * Long before the graphs &lt;b&gt;, , , , , , , , , &lt;s&gt;, , &lt;th&gt; and &lt;v&gt;
 * Short before the graphs , , , &gt;p&lt;, , , 
 * Short before any other two consonants (except )


 * Stressed vowels in words of more than one syllable are short (there are a few exceptions which will be pointed out as they appear).

Pronunciation

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