The Story of the Cornish Language
by Peter Berresford Ellis
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- ISBN 10
- 0850253101
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Tor Mark Press, Penryn, Cornwall, 1990. Second Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Near Fine Condition. Peter Berresford Ellis, historian, literary biographer and novelist, has published 50 books to date under his own name and that of his pseudonym Peter Tremayne. An expert on Celtic history and culture, he is best known in Cornwall as the author of The Cornish Language and its Literature (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974) which is still regarded as the definitive history of the language and was a set text in the Cornish Language Board's examinations. Chapter titles include:: The Cornish; The Conquest of Cornwall; Middle Cornish; The Cornish Scholars;The Decline; Did Cornish Die?; The Revivalists; The Growth of the Revival; & Cornish: Present and Future. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 32 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. Red titles front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Cornwall; Celtic Language; Common Brittonic Language; England; Language & Linguistics. ISBN: 0850253101. ISBN/EAN: 9780850253108. Inventory No: 4848. . 9780850253108
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- Title
- The Story of the Cornish Language
- Author
- Peter Berresford Ellis
- Format/Binding
- Softcover (Saddle-stapled)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0850253101
- ISBN 13
- 9780850253108
- Publisher
- Tor Mark Press
- Place of Publication
- Penryn, Cornwall
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Genealogy & Local History/Cornwall/Language & Linguistics/Celtic Language/Common Brittonic Language Genealogy & Local History; Cornwall; Celtic Language; Common Brittonic Language; England; Language & Linguistics. Unbranded ISBN:
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