What is Cornish dialect?
{{Infobox language |name = Anglo-Cornish |altname = Cornish English, Cornish dialect |nativename = |states = United Kingdom |region = [[Cornwall]] |speakers = ? |date = |familycolor = Indo-European |fam2 = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] |fam3 = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]] |fam4 = [[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo Frisian]] |fam5 = [[English languages|Anglic]] |fam6 = English |fam7 = |iso3 = |isoexception=dialect |glotto=none |ietf=en-cornu }} '''Cornish dialect''', also called '''Anglo-Cornish dialect''', is the [[dialect]] of [[English language|English]] that is spoken in [[Cornwall]], in south-western [[Great Britain]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Old Cornwall Society dialect webpages|url=http://www.cornishdialect.oldcornwall.org/|publisher=Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (Cornwall, United Kingdom)|access-date=2011-06-17|archive-date=2011-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622130140/http://cornishdialect.oldcornwall.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> == History == A long time ago, people in [[Cornwall]] spoke [[Cornish language|Cornish]], a language that is similar to [[Welsh language|Welsh]] and [[Breton language|Breton]]. After a while, people speaking [[English language|English]] came to Cornwall, and the [[Cornish people]] started to learn English. They did not speak in exactly the same way but spoke in a distinct way, the Cornish dialect. Eventually, people had forgotten how to speak Cornish by about 1800. [[File:Cornish Language Shift.svg|left|thumb|300px|alt=A colour-coded map of Cornwall, with the sea around it. Cornwall is dark red in the east and pale pink in the west, with a range of intermediate shades of red between, showing when people spoke the Cornish language. As time went on, fewer and fewer people in Cornwall spoke Cornish and only people in the west did. |Transition from Cornish to English within Cornwall]] == International use == Cornish people also spoke Cornish dialect when they went