Language code: kw
Technical information about ISO 639 language code kw
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The table below provides technical details for the Cornish language, designated by the kw code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Cornish Native Kernewek |
| Family | Brittonic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Related languages | BretonWelshCumbric (extinct) |
| Key facts | Became effectively extinct as a community language by the late 18th century and was revived in the 20th centuryvocabulary shows especially strong overlap with Breton, sharing around three-quarters of core lexemesemploys systematic initial consonant mutations triggered by grammatical contextthe Standard Written Form (SWF) was adopted in 2008 to unify previously competing orthographiesthe earliest surviving Cornish text is the 12th-century Charter Fragment. |
| Sample phrase | Dydh da, fatell os ta? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Cornish belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Brittonic subgroup. It is used by a minority group in Cornwall, England. It is estimated that there are around 500 to 1000 fluent speakers worldwide, with a larger number of people having some knowledge of the language.
Language presence globally
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*The graph shows a rough estimate of Cornish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
kw-GB – Cornish (United Kingdom)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ