andrew.climo • Cornish Linguistics, Onomastics and Ethnosemantics

Cornish Language Early Language Origins History Linguistics Other

Minority Rights Resources

Cornwall and very many other national communities are minorities within their respective state, or even within their own historic territories. I have been collecting a…

Early Language Origins History Other

We really need to talk about …. Bogus British Histories

andrew.climo April 14, 2024

The Guardian published two recent editorials supporting languages (“Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis” 22 Feb 24, and “Endangered Greek dialect is ‘living bridge’ to…

Other

Deteriorating Governance in Britain

andrew.climo March 14, 2024

Labour has five or maybe ten years to make sure the country is permanently repaired. There’s no point in treading water or doing the minimum…

Computing

Java Array Filling with Only Last Record’s Data

andrew.climo July 14, 2021

Having spent hours trying to find the bug in my logic, I’ve finally found the offending item. Talk about obscure! Here’s the offending block of…

Cornish Language Early Language Origins Historic Name Data Onomastics General

An Introduction to Cornish Onomastics

andrew.climo July 12, 2021

Onomastics is the study of names and the process of naming, and anthroponomastics is the study of personal names, as generally applied to people (anthroponyms),…

Computing

Creating a Suitable Development Environment for Geocoding: Macs, Java and NetBeans – Part 1

andrew.climo July 11, 2021

Problem Statement Having extracted the Ordnance Survey Open Names data from the OS web site and found that the precision of the data was insufficient…

Coordinate Data QGIS and Geospatial Data

Adding Elevation Data to the Place Names Dataset

andrew.climo July 11, 2021

I have now created new point data for about 6,000 settlements in Cornwall (with more accurate Lat/Long coordinates than provided by the Ordnance Survey Open…

Cornish Language Linguistics Onomastics General

What is IPA?

andrew.climo July 11, 2021

The ability to communicate effectively about the phonology of a language, particularly when it is no longer spoken relies on having a standard notation for…