Myttin Da: Putting The Cornish Back Into Cornwall

Cornwall officials are encouraging staff to speak a few words of Kernewek, the original Cornish language, when they answer the phone. People ringing the council in Cornwall could be greeted by a voice saying "Myttin da" instead of "good morning" as part of a plan to bring the language back into circulation. Kernewek is a language linked to Welsh and Breton that died out as a spoken language in the 18th century - now only 500 people out of a population of 532,300 say Cornish is their main languag