Outlander Gaelic

[O'Callaghan]

A bit like those who claim to speak Cornish?

Not a Cornish person, but used to know a speaker of the language. Cornish is a revived dead language, reconstructed from written documents that survived. We can't reconstruct versions of Brythonic spoken in Devon or Cumbria, because AFAIK nothing written exists. They may also have taken into account modern Welsh in this reconstruction? Nevertheless, modern Cornish is what they speak in Cornwall now, other than English, of course. There is a very close analogy with how modern Hebrew came about, as I understand it, albeit the latter is used by most Israelis most of the time. Suffice to say, if someone tells me they speak Cornish, then I believe them. They aren't saying they speak ancient Cornish, generally.