kernow matters to you
'Kernow Matters To Us' is a Cornish campaign group. Formed during 2015 to proclaim and celebrate Cornish culture, history, language and music whilst speaking out unashamedly for the Cornish, our members are proud to support the Cornish National Minority. Members of our group administer this and other social media sites.
Framework convention - click here for updates
Cornwall's name was first recorded in a place-name, Durocornouio, "fortress of the Cornish", c.400 AD, nearly 500 years before the name England was first recorded (as Englaland)
The Cornish were granted minority status within the UK and incorporated intoThe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - official Westminster Government Press Release
The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - Articles and Explanatory Report
'Cornish' Defined!
A number of the more academic members of our group, 'Kernow Matters To You', have gathered and examined the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCPNM) as well as other documents and have agreed the following definition:
DEFINITION OF CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY)
CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY): One of the Celtic group of peoples, most closely related to the Welsh and Bretons; of predominantly post-Glacial and early prehistoric Atlantic European provenance (10,000 – 2,500 BCE), ancestrally, culturally and genetically distinct from other British communities, and historically occupants of that part of Britain’s southwestern peninsula known as Kernow, or Cornwall; who speak, or whose forebears spoke as their native community tongue, the branch of the Brythonic Celtic language group known as Kernowek (Kernewek), or Cornish.
The Cornish were granted minority status within the UK and incorporated intoThe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - official Westminster Government Press Release
The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - Articles and Explanatory Report
'Cornish' Defined!
A number of the more academic members of our group, 'Kernow Matters To You', have gathered and examined the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCPNM) as well as other documents and have agreed the following definition:
DEFINITION OF CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY)
CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY): One of the Celtic group of peoples, most closely related to the Welsh and Bretons; of predominantly post-Glacial and early prehistoric Atlantic European provenance (10,000 – 2,500 BCE), ancestrally, culturally and genetically distinct from other British communities, and historically occupants of that part of Britain’s southwestern peninsula known as Kernow, or Cornwall; who speak, or whose forebears spoke as their native community tongue, the branch of the Brythonic Celtic language group known as Kernowek (Kernewek), or Cornish.
