Cornish Place Names in Kernewek (Phase Two)
Cornish place names in Kernewek is a project to encouraging greater use of these place names in everyday life. These will vary from names of towns and villages to places throughout Cornwall and ancient monuments and sites of interest.
A poster is available to download with the place names in Kernewek and English and there will be an audio link to each of the Cornish place names to help with pronunciation.
We hope this will be of benefit to people who are interested in Cornwall’s historic and cultural heritage and that more people will refer to places using the Cornish language name in everyday life.
The first phase of place names covered in a three month period was promoted in the Voice newspapers and continues with Phase Two.
- Clicking the audio file will give a pronunciation followed by a gap and then repeated. Combined gives all the places.
- Clicking » links to Henwyn Tyller (Place Names) providing meaning of the place name if known and more information.
Archive
Previous weeks posters and audio files will be available below, indexed here. Click the link to see the weeks Place Names of the Week
Introduction Goon Bren / Bodmin Moor
- Niver 1 - Historic Towns
- Niver 2 - Lizard Peninsula
- Niver 3 - Land’s End
- Niver 4 - Famous mines
- Niver 5 - Rame Peninsula
- Niver 6 - Bridges
- Niver 7 - Starting with Tre
- Niver 8 - Coastal features
- Niver 9 - Domesday villages
- Niver 10 - Offshore rocks
- Niver 11 -Coastal towns
- Niver 12 - Cornish Bays
- Niver 13 - Churchtowns
Place Name Theme - Newlyn School Class Names
- Clicking the audio file will give a pronunciation followed by a gap and then repeated. Combined gives all the places.
- Clicking » links to Henwyn Tyller (Place Names) providing meaning of the place name if known and more information.
Students at Truro College on the Foundation History Heritage & Culture degree course showing how easy to scan the QR code from the Voice newspaper or the poster to listen to the audio files via their mobiles. This helps in learning the pronunciation of words as well as the names of Cornish places in Kernewek.
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