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web-archive-org-5543		Cornish Language Partnership : History			.html	application/xhtml+xml	1921	117	70	Despite keeping his kingdom of Wessex separate from Cornwall, Athelstan interfered with the celtic monastic system, destroying a great number of Cornish manuscripts, which accounts for the lack of extant texts from this early period of Cornish. At the start of the eighteenth century the eminent Welsh scholar, Edward Lluyd, came to Cornwall to conduct research on the language, and as a result we have a valuable account of Cornish as it was actually spoken by a contemporary observer. This kick started the revival of Cornish as a living, spoken language, and Jenner's work was picked up and continued by Robert Morton Nance, who researched and gathered together more fragments of the language, finally developing a regularised spelling system based on the medieval texts, known as Unified Cornish. The process for deciding upon the standard written form drew upon the knowledge of a wide range of Cornish users as well as the experience and advice of a Commission composed of eminent language experts with knowledge of similar situations elsewhere.	./cache/web-archive-org-5543.html	./txt/web-archive-org-5543.txt