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Dalva an Yeth Kernewek 9Ves Mis Me 2020 Cornish Language Forum 9Th Information Classification: CONTROLLED Dalva an Yeth Kernewek 9ves mis Me 2020 Cornish Language Forum 9th May 2020 www.cornwall.gov.uk Information Classification: CONTROLLED Towlen an Yeth Kernewek 2020/21 Cornish Language Programme 2020/21 Status Corpus • Cornwall Council • Akademi Kernewek Language Plan 19-22 • Gonis Treylya • PSB Kernow Teaching and Learning Use – social and community • Learning & Comms grants by CC Contract - Golden Tree • Radyo an Gernewegva • Adult classes • Lowender Peran • Exams – Kesva and • Rosweyth – Kist Kov WJEC Information Classification: CONTROLLED . • Rosweyth – the Cornish language voluntary groups a. General feedback b. Speak Cornish Week 2020 c. Other events/activities d. Redruth Library – Cornwall Heritage Trust • Issues affecting the Cornish language community arising from lockdown and social distancing not covered above Information Classification: CONTROLLED Savla Status Cornwall Council Cornish Language Plan 2019-2022 Adopted May 2019 Branding – consistent use of Cornish Opportunities to learn in signage and more in general • 5 x classes at different CC sites branding • Golden Tree has developed a set of 6 classes to teach WJEC to entry level ready to go after lockdown Digital use of the language – Partner working eg Discover St.Austell with CC Heritage • National Trust and Public Health • English Heritage • Feast • Museums, theatres, galleries eg Sterts Theatre’s Shearing Gang • Kresen Kernow Information Classification: CONTROLLED UK Government MHCLG funding • Funding announced by Lord Bourne on 5 July – but only received on 4 Nov – still with deadline to complete projects by 31 Mar 2020. • CC demanding further funding this year – and MoU to secure more stable investment and dialogue for following 3 years Funding packages – 75% complete: 1. Community capacity - £40k 2. Education for Adults - £61k 3. Education for Young People – £27k 4. Media and Technology - £22k Information Classification: CONTROLLED IndyLan • Language learning app – 4,000 words, 4,000 phrases, gamified, culture sections • Erasmus+ funded and led by Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh • Based on Moving Languages – app for immigrants to learn main EU languages • This project develops the app and tests it on six regional languages – Saami, Scots, Scots Gaelic, Basque, Galician and Cornish • Development in 2020 • Test published spring 2021 and full launch in Cornwall in Sept 2021 Information Classification: CONTROLLED Ordinalia • Kresen Kernow – exhibition of plays postponed to June 20201 • Allows more time to consider wider programme of events and activities leading up to the exhibition • Two productions commissioned: • Kneehigh Theatre – modern response to themes in the Ordinalia • St.Just – staging the Ordinalia in the plen an gwari • Both will be in English but feature Kernewek and will need workshops to train actors • Both will do pop-up performances to promote their productions – these could be in Kernewek Information Classification: CONTROLLED Cornish Public Service Media Information Classification: CONTROLLED FylmK • Henry Jenner - Babel Film Festival Dec 19 in Sardinia • FylmK 2018 – Zoe Alker: Yn Mor • Best regional short at Cornwall Film Festival 2019 & selected for Celtic Media Festival 2020 • FylmK 2019 – An Tarow by Jonny Dry and Sam Chessett • Won its first laurels at BAFTA qualifying Carmarten Bay Film Festival • FylmK 2020 now open Information Classification: CONTROLLED vimeo.com/showcase/tk Information Classification: CONTROLLED Nessa kammow rag GMK • Completion of first project with S4C – Aventur Kyw – series of app games to be published early July • S4C interested in further work • First cartoon episode of Porth – to be used to find a commissioning partner • Positive meetings with key partners – DCMS and BBC • Need support of MP’s • To press case for commissioning funding for Cornish content and lure co- commissions Information Classification: CONTROLLED An pythow a yllowgh hwi gul rag gweres What you can do to help 1. Read the PSB Kernow research report – understand what it is and why it would be good for Cornwall, not just Kernewek – no-one else is going to make it happen if we don’t 2. Sign the petition: https://www.bosena.co.uk/tk 3. Use Tyskennow Kernewek – if we show there is demand, it will help our case 4. Letters of support from the language groups – or other groups you are in – different reasons specific to each group all help 5. Contribute good quality subtitled content to the Dyski section Information Classification: CONTROLLED Govynnow? Hag a-wosa: Korpus Information Classification: CONTROLLED AN AKADEMI YN 2019/20 Key achievements: • Formally became a CIO in December 2019 • New website published in January 2020 with constitution, minutes of Board meetings, etc. • Most governance papers agreed – remainder to be approved in July and all then published on AK website • Will then re-look at whether the Panels meet present needs, and review membership to ensure cross- section of skills • New online dictionary published in June 2019 and files brought up to date • Includes New Terms from the work of Terminology Panel • New Place Name website published in March 2019 with a) bilingual map and b) soundfiles • New databases allow online working Information Classification: CONTROLLED Information Classification: CONTROLLED Information Classification: CONTROLLED RAGDRESOW RAG 2020/21 PROJECTS FOR 2020/21 1. Completion of governance 2. Corpus search - examples of use / data mining texts 3. Framework for developing the corpus search, balancing priority texts with availability in required format 4. Soundfiles in dictionary 5. Framework for developing a ‘corpus of recordings’ 6. IndyLan app terminology – useful cross-section of everyday (and not-so-everyday) terms to add to the dictionary, and aiming to use recording of 4,000 words as start of dictionary soundfiles (subject to consistent formatting) 7. Comms, including technical presentations using new subject areas researched by the Terminology Planel NB – infrastructure either is, or will soon be, in place. Focus will switch to language content and Making the system work well – for public and volunteers. Information Classification: CONTROLLED Gonis Treylya • IndyLan – 4,000 words, 4,000 phrases • 748 translation requests • Included Leach Pottery guidebook, St.Austell app, film script for An Tarow and S4C apps • Thanks to translators for all their work • And to those on the Place Names Panel as they all have to return work to deadlines • Kesva to provide translator training in summer 2020 Information Classification: CONTROLLED Govynnow a-dro dhe’n Akademi? • Hag a-wosa: Akwiryans Information Classification: CONTROLLED GO CORNISH Information Classification: CONTROLLED Go Cornish work programme • Clusters – Penzance, Liskeard – and Bodmin was due to run in Spring 2020 • Work programme will have to be adjusted depending on when lockdown ends, but GT already looking at developing curriculum for pilot schools to embed more deeply into key schools • Future of business sponsor – First Kernow - loss of income • New intensive course for beginners (2 x 3 hour sessions) – for complete beginners and those who need to build confidence in speaking. Content complete – ready for events after lockdown. • Magi Ann 2 - for pre-school children – Cornish content complete – to be published after lockdown • Online ‘dyski’ resources for WJEC – 6 x sessions – for secondary schools, or community educators • Plus clips of Cornish in use in basic situations for adult learners Information Classification: CONTROLLED WJEC and Kesva exams Almost 90 students passed Kesva exams in 2019 – entries were growing 2020 exams postponed – will it affect numbers? • WJEC - developed Level 1 assessment and entered 6 students in Spring 2019 – plus 26 Entry Level students • WJEC means accreditation, but concerns at demands of the system need to be discussed with Kesva in 2020 • WJEC confirmed support for Cornish assessments in Oct 19 and clean bill of health to us as an exam centre (subject to improving paperwork) • WJEC introduced online enrolment – but still not provided to Cornwall • No entries in Spring 2020 due to lockdown – and Golden Tree were preparing to enter first batch of secondary school students • Need to develop Level 2 for 2021 Information Classification: CONTROLLED Ragdresow Projects www.cornwall.gov.uk Information Classification: CONTROLLED Kist Kov • Archiving and cataloguing paper resources and ephemera from the 20th century. • Make this extended history of Cornish publicly available • Make more materials available in their original format and encourage use of wider vocabulary and registers • Project co-ordinator to engage Cornish-speaking volunteers and liaison with Kresen Kernow. • Prepare bid for a longer project to produce as full a collection as possible. Information Classification: CONTROLLED Ragdres Kist Kov Project Kist Kov Servis an kynsa demedhyans yn Kernewek Information Classification: CONTROLLED Lies kerdh dhyworth an pennseythenyow Gwariow Information Classification: CONTROLLED Media an Gernewegva • Radyo warlinen pub seythen • An Mis – nowodhow misyek • Jerry hag Erel – 2 dowlen arghasys gans FEAST yn 2020 • Kan Rag Kernow – fylmys ha dyllys warlinen yn mis Meurth 2020 Information Classification: CONTROLLED Information Classification: CONTROLLED An Mis Information Classification: CONTROLLED Information Classification: CONTROLLED Lowender Peran project 2020 • Pilot mentoring programme for musicians to use Cornish • Talent development programme for traditional Cornish
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