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**Derivas Bledhynnyek 2020-21** Annual Report 2020-21
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## **OVERVIEW**
## **Organisation type**
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 27 Nov 2019
## **Charity Number**
1186610
## **Charitable objects**
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CORNISH LANGUAGE BY:
- A) DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF CORNISH LANGUAGE VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND PLACE NAMES.
- B) DEVELOPING THE COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE AND MAKING THIS KNOWLEDGE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE FOR USE BY SCHOOLS, PRE-SCHOOLS, ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS, RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS, AND ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN, OR IN LEARNING, THE CORNISH LANGUAGE.
## **How we have met that purpose**
The Akademi Kernewek and its four Panels have met regularly through 2020/21 to develop its research work in support of development of the online Cornish dictionary and the Cornish place name database. The Akademi also developed an online corpus search and is continuously reviewing how to coordinate Cornish language research, make the results of that research publicly accessible and how to develop effective new tools to enable more use of Cornish. The schedule below sets out the detailed achievements of the Akademi Kernewek in 2020/21.
## **Governance**
The Akademi Kernewek is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) that is managed by a Board of Trustees who meet every two months. Four Panels (working groups), each with their own specialist function, meet more regularly and report their research work to the Board for approval. All work of the Akademi and minutes of meetings are published on the Akademi Kernewek website:
Akademikernewek.org.uk
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## **Finance and administration**
The research work of the Akademi Kernewek is done almost entirely by volunteers. The Institute of Cornish Studies provides in kind support on background research and the two-yearly Skians conference, and the Cornish Language Office of Cornwall Council provides administrative support and costs set out below as a contribution to the work of the Akademi:
## **Summary of Support by the Cornish Language Office 2020/21**
|**Item**|**Cost**|
|---|---|
|Meetings – room bookings at Kowsva 09/12/2019-
16/03/2020|£120.00|
|Dictionary database data management|£604.29|
|Website development – Satzooma (AK corpus search &
place-name website development)|£975.00|
|Bangor University dictionary development – a) creation of
corpus search and b) soundfile function and loading files|£4,000.00|
|Website domain – 14/4/2020 GoDaddy
akademikernewek.org.uk domain (2 years)|£28.78|
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|Total|£5,728.07|
The Akademi Kernewek has no bank account and no assets other than intellectual property in its databases.
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## **AKADEMI KERNEWEK – ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021 – Schedule of work completed.**
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||**STRATEGIC**|**TASK**|**COMPLETION**
**DATE**|**Progress**|
||Issues|Consideration of research matters
brought to the Akademi||The Board has considered the following research issues:
•
Counting (base 10 / base 20) – agreed to retain base 20
in Akademi publications, but understand use of base 10
in certain contexts eg teaching, accountancy.
•
Gendered/gender neutral terms for professions –
agreed to only provide one neutral term for new terms
for professions and retain m/f professions where already
in the dictionary. Further research on gender neutral
suffixes to be continued in 2021.
•
Tagging of Middle and Late – further research and
discussion to be continued in 2021 aimed at simplifying
use.|
||Partnership|Develop the agreed partnership
between Akademi Kernewek and
Exeter University to develop a high-
quality research capacity around the
Cornish language.|Ongoing|•
Two public history student placements assisted with
comms and place name database improvements.
•
University of Exeter approved Cornish language
undergraduate module to be adverstised from March
2021 but student numbers will dictate whether it
proceeds in September 2021
•
Cornish language history part of research programme of
Institute of Cornish Studies
•
University of Exeter language department has carried
outqualitative research on use of Cornish language and|
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||||barriers to use of spoken Cornish with results due in
autumn 2021.|
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|Website|Publish online Cornish SWF dictionary
and other online corpus resources
Develop the depth of these resources
through the work of the Panels|Ongoing|1. Over 300 new terms added to the online dictionary
2. Corpus search website published July 2020
3. Street name database completed in September 2020.
4. New tool was created for adding soundfiles to the online
dictionary and 2500 soundfiles have been published
covering all vocab in IndyLan app, Bora Brav text book and
KDL grade 1 course..|
|**COMMS**|**Task**|**Completion**|**Progress**|
|Strategy|Prepare an AK comms plan - identifying
useful AK work to publicise and how to
be useful to Cornish speakers|Mar 2021|•
Draft comms plan presented by students at December
meeting. Ideas in the draft plan to be piloted including
video for social media in Spring 2021 before finalising
comms plan later in Spring 2021. The concern is to keep
comms within realistic capacity of volunteers.|
|Skians –
Biennial
research
conference|Cornish language conference at Penryn
Campus in Oct 2020|2-3 Oct 20|•
Skians Cornish language conference held online on 2
October 2020 – a one-day event with almost 100
participants. Most of the talks were published on the
Akademi youtube channel and has been viewed over 260
times:
•
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umt_Q62kRJ8|
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|Video lectures|Host specialist lectures relating to
technical terms by the Terminology
Panel||•
Talk by Ken George on Japan recorded and published as
first Akademi talk on the Akademi’s youtube channel:
•
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEiIW_oWxnQ
•
Although not related to new terms recently published by the
Akademi, the aim of this talk was to pilot the format and
create a template.|
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|SWF
specification|Publish the full SWF specification on
the Akademi website||Final report to be published on AK website in summer 2021.|
|**DICTIONARY**|**Task**|**Target date**|**Progress**|
|Policy|Prepare and publish a policy to set out
the remit of the Panel and its principles
for decision making.|Jan 2021|•
Interim guidance was issued by the CLO in 2019
•
New remits and updated policies for all Panels to be
approved by Board May – July 2021 and published on the
Akademi website.|
|Appointment of
chair and panel
members|Formation of new Dictionary Panel
focussed on agreed tasks|April 2021|•
An informal panel reviewed the online dictionary files in
2018/19. A new, more focussed remit will be agreed in
May 2021 to better serve the other Panels and a new chair
and panel members will be appointed under the new remit.|
|Review and
expand
dictionary
entries|This is the core function of the
Dictionary Panel, ensuring the reliability
and review of new entries and
developing the depth of the Akademi
dictionary.|Ongoing|The revised Panel from May 2021 will support the Akademi by:
•
expanding existing dictionary entries and entries for new
terms arising from the work of the Terminology Panel.
•
disambiguate existing entries and develop consistent
categories in consultation with Bangor University|
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check compliance of entries and new terms with SWF spec
– referring issues to the Research Panel|
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|**TERMINOLOGY**|
**Task**|**Target date**|**Progress**|
|Project|Review and confirm new terms to
support the IndyLan learning app
project|July 2020|The Akademi researched and agreed almost 2000 terms for
the language learning app (IndyLan) which were in use by
Cornish speakers but not yet in the Akademi’s online
dictionary. The project has helped to broaden the dictionary’s
coverage of day to day vocabulary.|
|Subject areas|Provide terms for 3 new subject areas
(normally maximum 100 words per
subject):
•
Grammatical terms
•
Arithmetic terms
•
Points of compass and
navigation|March 2021|Term lists on subject areas have been completed for:
•
Grammatical terms
•
Points of compass
•
Trees
•
Insects
•
Colours (70)|
|Idioms|Compile a list of idioms in Cornish and
make publicly available (as resources
allow)||To be progressed in 2021|
|**PLACE**
**NAMES**|**Task**|**Target date**|**Progress**|
|Communication|Develop functionality and resources on
the new Akademi Place-name Website|Dec 2020|The AK Place name website has been upgraded to provide
more information to users and show distribution of place name
elements.|
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|Place name
and street
names|Ongoing enquiries from Cornwall
Council Highways, CC projects and
other partner projects||Providing street name and place name translation to Cornwall
Councils is a priority.
List of names of all schools in Cornwall provided to Cornwall
Heritage Trust and published on the CHT website.|
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|Projects|**Gorsedh Kernow – Bude**
research and provide information for
placename booklet
**Penwith Landscape Partnership**
Consider linkages and potential use of
project research on Akademi website
**Tevi**– Cornwall digital mapping project –
potential link up|August 2020|Research on Cornish place names for the Bude area
completed with results added to the database and to be
published by the Kesva as a booklet
Detailed research of place names relating to the Penwith
landscape for the Taking Names workstream of the Penwith
Landscape Partnership.
Other partner projects such as Tevi will be followed up in
2021/22.|
|**RESEARCH**|**Task**|**Target date**|**Progress**|
|Programme to
publish the
complete
Cornish
Corpus –
programme to
be agreed with
other
organisations.|Appraise the quality and availability of
existing editions of the traditional texts,
both printed and electronic
Work with partner Cornish language
organisations to support the publication
of new editions of the traditional texts
Agree prioritisation programme – with
Board and other language organisations
Develop a programme to provide a fully
tagged corpus online and to enable
displayof examples of use in the Maes-T|Phase 1 –
Corpus search
website by
March 2021|Partner project with Bangor University
Corpus search website published in 2020.
Development of the corpus search and tagged corpus will be
worked on in 2021.|
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||dictionary database (and thence to the
online dictionary).|||
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|Development
of the SWF
dictionary|Identification of issues raised but not
solved by the SWF Review
Consider issues raised by Dictionary
Panel and make recommendations to the
Dictionary Panel|Ongoing|Ongoing|
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