Dolly Pentreath
(d.1777)

Died aged unknown

Dorothy Pentreath (16 May 1692 [baptised] – 26 December 1777) is the best-known of the last fluent speakers of the Cornish language. She is also often credited as the last known native speaker of Cornish, although sources support the existence of other younger speakers of the language who survived her.

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Here lived Dolly Pentreath one of the last speakers of the Cornish language as her native tongue died Dec. 1777

somewhere, Mousehole, United Kingdom where they lived