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  1. Extinct member of the Celtic languages, a
  2. branch of the Indo-European language family,
  3. spoken in Cornwall, England, until 1777.
  4. Written Cornish first appeared in
  5. 10th-century documents; some religious plays
  6. were written in Cornish in the 15th and 16th
  7. centuries, but later literature is scanty,
  8. consisting mainly of folk tales and verses.
  9.