A. S. D. Smith

Arthur Saxon Dennett Smith (Sussex, 1883–1950) was a Cornish bard, writer and linguist, known by the bardic name Caradar. He was born in Sussex, England, of Cornish parents and became a collaborator with Robert Morton Nance and Henry Jenner on the Gerlyver noweth Kernewek ha Sawsnek (Cornish-English dictionary). He compiled several grammars to make learning Cornish easier and edited some of the surviving Cornish texts. He also wrote a series of books aimed at teaching Welsh to English speakers. He is buried at Amberley, Sussex.

Works

• Cornish Simplified (Kernewek Sempelhes) (1939)
• Nebes Whethlow Ber (1946)
• The Story of the Cornish Language (Whedhel an Yeth Kernewek)
• How to Learn Cornish (Fatell dhyskir Kernewek)
• Whethlow an Seyth Den Fur a Rom (1948)
• Welsh Made Easy (in three parts)

External links

• Works by A. S. D. Smith at Project Gutenberg
• An Independent Academic Study on Cornish; April 2000 EKOS Ltd; SGRÚD Research]