Sardinian language

E87997

The Sardinian language is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sardinia, noted for preserving many archaic features of Latin more than any other modern Romance tongue.


Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
endangered language
language
minority language
closelyRelatedTo Corsican language
country Italy
hasDialect Campidanese Sardinian
Gallurese
Logudorese Sardinian
Nuorese Sardinian
Sassarese
hasGlottocode sard1257
hasMorphologicalFeature analytic verb forms
definite articles derived from Latin IPSE
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
lenition of intervocalic stops
hasRegulator Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
Sportellu Linguìsticu Regionale
hasStandardForm Limba Sarda Comuna
Limba Sarda Unificada
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order
clitic pronouns
hasWritingSystem Latin script
influencedBy Catalan language
Italian language
Pre-Latin Sardinian substratum
Spanish language
ISO639-1Code sc
ISO639-2Code srd
ISO639-3Code srd
languageFamily Indo-European
Italic
Romance
legalStatus recognized minority language in Italy
nativeName limba sarda
sardu
officialStatus co-official language in Sardinia
preservesFeature Latin case remnants in pronouns
archaic Latin phonology
conservative Latin vocabulary
recognizedBy European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
region Sardinia
spokenIn Italy
Sardinia
subclassOf Indo-European languages
Italo-Dalmatian languages
usedFor local media
oral poetry
traditional music
writingSystemType alphabet

Referenced by (17)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Sardinians ("Campidanese Sardinian")
Sardinians ("Logudorese Sardinian")
Sardinians ("Nuorese Sardinian")
haveDialect
Corsican language ("Sardinian Gallurese dialect")
Corsu
closelyRelatedTo
Popular Latin
ancestorOf
Corsu ("Sardinian")
hasLexicalSimilarityWith
Gallura ("Sardinian")
hasRegionalLanguage
Sardinian language ("Limba Sarda Comuna")
hasStandardForm
Sassarese
hasSubstrate
Sassarese
influencedBy
Sardinia
knownFor
Antonio Gramsci ("Sardinian")
languageSpoken
Judicate of Arborea
languageUsed
Cagliari ("Campidanese Sardinian")
localLanguage
Sardinian language ("limba sarda")
nativeName
Sardinia ("Sardinian")
recognizedRegionalLanguage

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