The pronunciation of traditional Cornish is a matter of conjecture, but users of Revived Middle Cornish are more or less agreed about the phonology they use.
Consonants This is a table of the phonology of Revived Middle Cornish (RMC) as recommended for the pronunciation of Kernewek Kemmyn orthography, using symbols from the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Vowels These are tables of the phonology of Revived Middle Cornish as recommended for the pronunciation of Kernewek Kemmyn, using symbols from the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Short Vowels Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. Long Vowels Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel.Speakers who prefer a later pronunciation merge the rounded vowels with the unrounded one. The vowels with their corresponding letters in the Kernewek Kemmyn orthography and the short/long pairs are as follows: Notes: 1. A vowel is considered short when it comes before double consonants (e.g. ⟨nn⟩, ⟨mm⟩, and so on), or before any two consonants. 2. Some vowels have a tendency to be reduced to schwas in unstressed syllables ==References==