Cornish people

Cornish people
Kernowyon

Total population
6–11 million worldwide Population of Cornwall from 2011 UK Census 532,300; 83,966 stating their national identity as Cornish in the United Kingdom Census 2011 (73,220 in Cornwall, 14% of the population); 26% of the population of Cornwall identified as Cornish in the Cornwall Quality of Life Survey 2007; 28,584 – 41% of school pupils in Cornwall recorded as having Cornish ethnicity in 2011; 37,500 identifying their ethnicity as Cornish in the United Kingdom Census 2001; 1,550 identifying as having Cornish ethnic origins in the Canada 2006 Census
Regions with significant populations
United Kingdom ( Cornwall) 534,300
United States	1,000,000 – 2,500,000
Australia	1,000,000
Canada
Mexico
New Zealand
South Africa
Languages
English (Anglo-Cornish and West Country dialects) · Cornish
Religion
Mainly Christianity Mostly Protestantism (Anglicanism and Methodism), also Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
English, Welsh, Scottish, Manx, Bretons, Irish
aCornish American, bCornish Australian

6–11 million worldwide

Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon) are an ethnic group associated with Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain, administered as part of England, and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom. The Cornish thus represent a distinct ethnic group within the UK, which can trace its roots to the ancient Britons who inhabited southern and central Great Britain before the Roman conquest, and some in the county today continue to assert a distinct identity, separately or in addition to English or British identities. Cornish identity has been adopted by migrants into Cornwall, as well as by emigrant and descendant communities from Cornwall, the latter sometimes referred to as the Cornish diaspora. Although not included as an explicit option in the UK census, the numbers of those claiming Cornish ethnic and national identity are officially recognised and recorded.

Throughout classical antiquity, the ancient Britons formed a series of tribes, cultures and identities in Great Britain; the Dumnonii and Cornovii were the Celtic tribes who inhabited what was to become Cornwall during the Iron Age, Roman and post-Roman periods. The name Cornwall and its demonym Cornish are derived from the Celtic Cornovii tribe. The Anglo-Saxon invasion and settlement of Britain in the 5th to 6th centuries pushed Celtic culture and some Celtic peoples to the northern and western fringes of Britain. The Cornish people, who shared the Brythonic language with the Welsh and Bretons across the sea, were referred to in the Old English language as the "Westwalas" meaning West Welsh. The Battle of Deorham between the Britons and Anglo-Saxons is thought to have resulted in a loss of landlinks with the people of Wales.

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