Most people consider Dolly Pentraeth to be the last native speaker of Cornish (although there is an argument for her neighbor, who lived a few years longer). Dolly died in 1777 in the village of Mousehole. An interest in reviving Cornish began in 1904 with the publication of Henry Jenner's A Handbook of the Cornish Language. A Cornish Language Board was established in 1967 and published grammars, dictionaries, and translations. However, since the language was long dead, a modern version (several modern versions as it turned out) was invented, with a vocabulary based on the few extant Middle Cornish texts as well as new words created from Welsh and Breton. Some of the grammar was newly created as well, not to mention the pronunciation. There are very few manuscripts from Middle and Late Cornish, so the revivors HAD to reinvent the language. Donna White