De Meurth, nawves warn ügens mis Gwedngala
Tuesday, 29th September
My a viras orth program dhe les gen BBC – an story keladow a scrifa. Fatel ellen nei godhvos an prederyansow e’n pedn nebonan aral? An gorryp ew tavas. Fatel wrüg an bobel godhvos an prederyansow aga ragadasow? En kensa e veu tradicyon cowsys. En Âwstraly ma lavarow a linen gân. Bes mars ew terrys an linen nena ew kellys an pederyans. Gen scrifa nei ell godhvos prederyansow nebonan en termynyow eus passyes ken fe astelys an tradicyon cowsys. Gen scrifa agan prederyansow hedhyw ell bos godhvedhys en termyn a vedn dos. Nebonan lies mildir alebma ell godhvos agan prederyansow nei heb clowes agan lev. Thera nei danon lether. Ma’n messach ow mos dhe ’gan lagajow. An kensa scrifa a veu en form a pictours facys. Nena an shapys a dhisqwedhas sonow ha letherednow a veu gwres. Thera nei ow kenkya whath adro dhe’n letherednow rag disqwedhes an sonow tavas Kernôwek. Martesen nei a dal mos tre dhe ûsya pictours!
I watched an interesting programme by the BBC – the secret history of writing. How can we know the thoughts in someone else’s head? The answer is language. How did people know the thoughts of their ancestors? First there was a spoken tradition. In Australia there is talk of a song line. But if the line is broken then the thought is lost. With writing we can know someone’s thoughts in past times even if the oral tradition is interrupted. With writing our thoughts today can be known in the future. Someone many miles away can know our thoughts without hearing our voice. We send a letter. The message goes to our eyes. The first writing was in the form of stylised pictures. Then the shapes represented sounds and letters were produced. We are still arguing about the letters for representing the sounds of the Cornish language. Perhaps we should go back to using pictures!
Deg ger rag hedhyw: Ten words for today
astelys interrupted
cowsys spoken, verbal, oral
godhvedhys known
gorryp ~ gorthyp (m) answer
keladow secret
ken fe even if, even though
kenkya o argue
lavarow talk, sayings
prederyansow thoughts
ragadasow ancestors, forefathers
story (m) history
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