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