Sassarese

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Sassarese is a Romance language variety spoken in and around the city of Sassari in northern Sardinia, influenced by both Sardinian and Corsican-Ligurian linguistic features.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italo-Dalmatian language variety
Romance language variety
minority language
regional language
closelyRelatedTo Corsican language
Gallurese
developedFrom Corsican varieties
Tuscan-based varieties
hasAlternativeName sassaresu
turritanu
hasApproximateSpeakers hundreds of thousands
hasLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
Romance languages
hasLexicalFeature Tuscan-Italian lexicon
strong Sardinian lexical component
hasMorphosyntacticFeature mixture of Sardinian and Italo-Romance structures
hasPhonologicalFeature influence from Corsican phonology
influence from Sardinian phonology
hasRegion Anglona
Logudoro
Nurra
Osilo area
Ossi area
Porto Torres area
Province of Sassari
Sennori area
Sorso area
Tissi area
hasStatus not an official language of Italy
hasSubfamily Italo-Dalmatian languages
hasSubstrate Sardinian language
hasSuperstrate Tuscan Italian
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
influencedBy Corsican language
Ligurian language
Sardinian language
recognizedAs distinct from Gallurese
distinct from Sardinian
distinct from standard Italian
spokenIn Italy
Sardinia
Sassari
northern Sardinia
usedAs vernacular language in Sassari
usedIn everyday oral communication
local literature
local music
theatre

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