public_comment: "Cornish is a "revived" language; it once had no surviving native speakers, with the last known fluent speaker having passed away by the year 1800, but has been learned by many in more recent times. ",
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code_id:4050,
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speaker_number_text: "~600",
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semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "468,425",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""500 use Cornish; about 100 others who speak fluently (2003)." Data for the ethnic population is from the 1991 census.",
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code_id:4050,
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speaker_number_text: null,
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second_language_speakers: "A few hundred learners/speakers of revived version",
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older_adults: "",
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public_comment: ""Unusually for a minority language, despite some use in a small number of families (Renkó-Michelsén in prep.), almost all Cornish speakers are adult learners. Some have passed it to their children – a few of whom maintain it as adults – but there are no unbroken ancestral links to the spoken vernacular. These speakers are the result of a centuries-long effort to rebuild an almost lost language, and with it a new language community."",