Unified Cornish

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Unified Cornish (UC) (Kernewek Uny[e]s, KU) is a variety of revived Cornish. Developed gradually by Morton Nance during and before the 1930s, it derived its name from its standardisation of the variant spellings of traditional Cornish MSS. Nance's recommended spelling and grammar, based on Middle Cornish, soon supplanted Henry Jenner's system which had been based largely on Late Cornish. Most of the older generation of Cornish users alive today would have started under this system. It was also the form used by Gorseth Kernow originally, although this has now been opened up to all forms.

In the 1980s, Unified Cornish came under heavy criticism, leading to the creation of Kernewek Kemmyn (KK) and Modern Cornish (or Revived Late Cornish, RLC).

However, a number stayed with Unified. In the 1990s, yet another variety emerged when Unified Cornish Revised (UCR) (Kernowek Unys Amendys, KUA) was devised by Nicholas Williams. All forms, however, have been used in the construction of the Cornish-language Wikipedia, whose frontpage contains an introduction in the various forms.

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