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Bluth vee ewe try egence a pemp.<br /><br />
Theara vee dean bodjack an poscas.<br /><br />
Me rig deskey Cornoack termen me vee mawe.<br /><br />
Me vee demore gen seara vee a pemp dean moy en cock.<br /><br />
Me rig scantlower clowes eden ger Sowsnack cowes en cock rag sythen ware Bar.<br /><br />
Na rig a vee biscath gwellas lever Cornoack.<br /><br />
Me deskey Cornoack moas da maor gen tees coath.<br /><br />
Na ges moye vel pager po pemp en dreav nye ell clapia Cornoack leben,<br /><br />
poble coath pager egence blouth.<br /><br />
Cornoack ewe oll neceaves gen poble younk.<br />
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==Transliteration==<br />
Bloodh vy yw trei ugens ha pemp.<br /><br />
Yth erov vy den boghojek an puskes.<br /><br />
My a wrug deski Kernowek [en] termyn [may] feu vy maw.<br /><br />
My a veu dhe mor gen sira vy ha pemp den moy e'n kok.<br /><br />
My a wrug skant lowr klowes udn ger Sowsnek kowsys e'n kok rag seythen war-barth.<br /><br />
Na wrugav vy byskath gweles lever Kernowek.<br /><br />
My a dheski Kernowek [ow] moas dhe mor gen tus koth.<br /><br />
Nag eus moy avel pajar po pemp e'n drev nei a ell klappya Kernowek lebmyn,<br /><br />
pobel koth, pajar ugens bloodh.<br /><br />
Kernowek yw oll nakevys gen pobel yonk.<br />
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==Translation==<br />
My age is sixty-five.<br /><br />
I'm a poor fisherman.<br /><br />
I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.<br /><br />
I have been to sea with my father and five other men in a fishing boat.<br /><br />
I heard scant a single word of English in the boat for a whole week.<br /><br />
I never saw a Cornish book.<br /><br />
I learnt Cornish going to sea with the old men.<br /><br />
There are no more than four or five in our village who can talk Cornish now,<br /><br />
old people, eighty years old.<br /><br />
Cornish is all forgotten by the young people.<br />
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==Links==<br />
*Modern Cornish http://www.moderncornish.net/late-texts/Bodinar-William-lettertobarrington.html<br />
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==Reference==<br />
*OC Vol III No 7 Summer 1940 also JRIC (photo of original)<br />
*The Cornish Language and Its Literature, Peter Berresford Ellis, 1974. p119-20</div>Nicky