Corsu

E29293

Corsu is the native name for the Corsican language spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.


Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Italo-Dalmatian language
Romance language
language name
closelyRelatedTo Italian language
Sardinian language
Tuscan dialect
culturalAssociation Corsican identity
Corsican literature
developedFrom Latin
endonymFor Corsican
hasAlternativeName Corsican
Lingua corsa
hasAncestralForm Vulgar Latin
hasDialect Cismuntincu
Pumontincu
hasGlottocode cors1243
hasISO639-3Code cos
hasLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
Romance languages
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Italian
Sardinian
hasPhonologicalFeature palatal consonants
vowel length distinctions in some dialects
hasStandardForm Standard Corsican
hasStatus endangered language
influencedBy French
Italian
Tuscan
languageOf Corsica
minorityLanguageIn France
nativeNameOf Corsican language
recognizedAs regional language of France
regionOfUse Corse-du-Sud
Haute-Corse
spokenIn Corsica
France
Mediterranean region
typologicalFeature SVO word order
gendered nouns
rich verb conjugation
usedFor local media in Corsica
oral communication in Corsican communities
traditional music and songs
usedInEducation regional schools in Corsica
uses Latin alphabet with diacritics
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Corsicans
autonym

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