This new edition of Jenner's classic "Handbook of the Cornish Language" appears more than a century after the book's first publication. Now that the Cornish Revival has weathered many storms, it is well worth making Jenner's ground-breaking work available again, copies of the 1904 edition having become rare and expensive. The book is not a mere facsimile. It contains phonetic tran­scriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), to assist the modern reader in under­standing exactly which sounds Jenner was recommending. It also includes three articles he published between 1873 and 1877, near the begin­ning of his researches into Cornish, reproduced for comparison with the main text from 1904. The orthographic system which Jenner used in 1904 was the culmination of many years of work, but it is important to notice that Jenner was aware three decades earlier of Bell's "Visible Speech", and of Ellis' "Pal?otype" and "Glossic". Jenner's familiarity with these pre­cursors of the IPA...

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