Around 4000 years (1) ___, the group of languages now called the Celtic languages started to develop. (2) ___ languages then became two different groups. Cornish, Welsh and Breton – the language spoken (3) ___ north-west France – are one group, and Irish and Scots Gaelic are part of the (4) ___.
Cornish grew like a modern European language (5) __ the 17th century, when English became (6) ___ important in Cornwall than earlier. English (7) ___ used to buy and sell things and because of that, Cornish people began to think badly of (8) ___ language and lots saw Cornish only as the language of poor people.
By the end of the 19th century, Cornish was no longer spoken. But a man called Henry Jenner studied the language and (9) ___ it back to life. Now, you can even learn Cornish on the (10) ___!