User talk:G Pavey

Are Devonian People Really That Different From The Cornish?

I read the article on the Dumnonii with interest. The Cornish have a long history of feeling a sense of being Cornish as opposed to English. Cornwall was a part of Dumnonia which included Devon and parts of Somerset. Wouldn't it be logical that the people of Devon might also have gone down the path of feeling their own sense of being Devonian? Among the things that seem significantly different between the history of the inhabitants of Devon and Cornwall is that Cornwall fell to the Anglo Saxons at a later date than Devon and also that Devon lost its Brythonic language at an earlier time. Cornwall may have been a semi independent part of the loosely formed Dumnonii Kingdom but the peoples are the same West Welsh that the Anglo Saxons reffered to. Maybe Devon has had its inhabitants diluted by a greater number of migrants of Anglo Saxon origin but Cornwall was also eventually absorbed by the Anglo Saxons? This raises many issues for modern day Devonian people who might look to the Cornish language as a surviving form of their own earlier Brythonic language. There should also be a shared kinship between the two peoples because they were both formerly part of Dumnonia.