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Encyclopedia > Ken George

Dr Ken George is the Principal Lecturer in Ocean Science in the Institute of Marine Studies at the University of Plymouth. He is also noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, a revised spelling for the Cornish language intended to be more faithful to Middle Cornish phonology than its precursor ('Unified Cornish'). Kernewek Kemmyn also includes a set of prescriptive grammatical and lexical recommendations.However this system of Cornish has drawn criticism from some experts on Celtic languages, notably Nicholas Williams. George has published several dictionaries of Cornish, and various other linguistic as well as oceanographical works. He lives in Southeast Cornwall, and speaks Breton and French as well as English and Cornish. One of the University of Plymouth ultra modern buildings in the City of Plymouth with the university logo on it The University of Plymouth is the largest university in the southwest of England, with over 30,000 students (the 4th UK university regarding the highest numbers of students), almost 3... The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernowek, Kernewek, Curnoack) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Breton, the extinct Cumbric and perhaps the hypothetical Ivernic. ... Phonology (Greek phone = voice/sound and logos = word/speech), is a subfield of linguistics closely associated with phonetics. ... Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams (born October, 1942 in London, UK), writing as Nicholas Williams or sometimes N.J.A. Williams, is a leading expert on the Cornish language. ... Caradon is a local government district in Cornwall, United Kingdom. ... Breton (Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany in France. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...



 

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