I was trying to suggest that Dolly might not have been the last native speaker but the last native speaker who did not learn other languages. Apart from anything else, it is much easier to be specific about this group and when it dies out. J On 19 May 2010, at 12:52, Jean Ellis wrote: > I think that, technically at least, a native speaker is a person who > learns a language as her or his first language. Dolly may have spoken > another language after infancy. Those who learn Cornish, or French, > Italian, German, Latin, etc., later in life may be fluent speakers but > would not be native speakers. > On May 19, 2010, at 7:12 AM, judy olsen wrote: > >> Or maybe the last person who conversed in Cornish and nothing else. >> >> >> J >> >> >> >> >> On 19 May 2010, at 11:28, Michael Kiernan wrote: >> >>> "who was the last native speaker" >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com >> >> Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription >> information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN- >> request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription > information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message