Revived Middle Cornish

I, Qwynegold, am writing this article while self-studying Cornish online, as a way of sorting out what I have learned. Maybe others will have use of this as well? I'm expanding the article little by little as I progress in my study. I'm using the online course Kernewek Dre Lyther (KDL), so most references will be of that. There are also some references to the PDF An Outline of the Standard Written Form of Cornish.

Revived Middle Cornish Kernewek
Spoken in:	Cornwall, United Kingdom
World:	Earth
Total speakers:	3,500 (all varieties)
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European Celtic Insular Celtic Brythonic Cornish
Basic word order:
Morphological type:
Morphosyntactic alignment:

Phonology and Orthography

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Initial Mutation

In Cornish, some words cause the initial consonant of the following word to change. This is called mutation. There are five different types of mutation in Cornish, called soft, breathed, hard, mixed and mixed after Th, referring to the sound changes involved. These are numbered 2-6, and are usually just referred to by their number.[1] For example dhe² means that the word dhe causes soft mutation in the following word. This table shows which sounds change into what in different mutation states. An empty cell means that no change happens, and a dash means that the sound is elided. For example the word gramasek becomes ramasek in second state (soft) mutation.

Mutation Table

1 Unmutated	2 Soft	3 Breathed	4 Hard	5 Mixed	6 Mixed after Th
B	V		P	F	V
Ch	J
D	Dh		T	T	T
G+{a, e, i, y}	-		K	H	H
G+{o, u, ro, ru}	W		K	Hw	W
G+{l, r}	-		K
Gw	W		Kw	Hw	W
K	G1	H2
M	V			F	V
P	B1	F
T	D1	Th

¹No change if the previous word ends with S or Th.
²No change if followed by L, N or R.

Morphology

Articles

There was a word unn that was sometimes used as an indefinite article in old Cornish texts, but Revived Cornish seldomly use any indefinite article.[2]

Adjectives

Adjectives follow the noun they modify. Adjectives following singular feminine nouns take mutation form 2.[3]

Verbs

Copulas

Yw is the third person singular form of "be".[4]

An vro yw Pow Frynk.
an	DEF.AGR\bro	yw	Pow.Frynk
DEF	DEF.AGR\country	be.3SG	France
The country is France.

A third person singular subject pronoun may be dropped when yw is used, in which case yw is placed after its complement.[5]

Ki yw.
ki	yw
dog	be.3SG
He/she/it is a dog.

Particles

The particle a² is used before verbs in nominal sentences to mark for affirmative polarity.[6]

Syntax

Possession

There is no genitive morpheme in Cornish. Instead possession is shown by simply placing the possessor after the possessee.[7]

Kok an pyskador.
kok	an	pyskador
fishing.boat	DEF	fisherman
The fisherman's fishing boat.

This article is one of quite a few pages about Natlangs. Indo-european natlangs: Balto-Slavic Natlangs: Czech * Russian Celtic Natlangs: Revived Middle Cornish * Pictish Germanic Natlangs: North Germanic Natlangs: Norwegian West Germanic Natlangs: Anglo-Saxon * Dutch * English (Old English * Middle English * Modern English * Scots) * German (High German * Low German) Indo-Iranian Natlangs: Pahlavi Italic Natlangs: French * Italian * Latin * Spanish Debated: Cimmerian Uralic Natlangs: Finnish * Khanty * Mansi * Mordvinic * Proto-Uralic Altaic (controversial): Japanese Sino-Tibetan Natlangs: Uto-Aztecan Natlangs: Nahuatl - Isolate Natlangs: Basque * * Hypothetical/debated Natlangs and Natlang families: Danubian * Europic (obsolete)