These notes are taken from Edwin Norris' _The Ancient Cornish Drama_
volume 2, p. 232.

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	Norris notes the existance of a dual number in Cornish which is an
agglutionation of the noun and a form of the numeral 'two'.  It only seems
to occur in reference to parts of the body which occur in pairs.  But if
the parts of the body mentioned belong to more than one person, then the
regular plural is used.  Here are some examples:

luef  "hand"	>	dyulef (dyule)  "the hands"
scouth "sholder"  >	dywscoth (duscoth)  "the sholders"
bregh  "arm"	>	dywvregh  "the arms"
			dewlagas  "the eyes"
			dewlyn (deuglyn)  "the knees"

	While in the regular plural:

dornow			hands (of more than one person)
lagasow			eyes  (of more than one person)

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	Alan Thomas in his Cornish chapter of _Language in the British Isles_
(Thrudgill [ed],1984:278-288) has done a fine phonetic study of Cornish based
on Lhuyd's work and on rhyme studies.  I am trying to get a good grasp of how
he relates the written othography to his IPA interpretation so that I can post
it.  I wish everyone a fine day.

                                             Anthony Velasquez
                                             Oregon State Univeristy
                                    (E-mail) velasqua@ucs.orst.edu

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