Sardinian language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Sardinian |
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| Sardu | |
| Native to | Italy |
| Region | Sardinia |
| Ethnicity | Sardinians |
| Native speakers | (~1 million cited 1993-2007) |
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| Official language in | Sardinia |
| Regulated by | Limba Sarda Comuna |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-s +(Corso-Sardinian) 51-AAA-pd & -pe |
Languages and dialects of Sardinia. Sardinian is spoken in all the orange-coloured areas.
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Sardinian (Sardu, Limba or Lingua sarda) is a Romance language. It is native to the island of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island and autonomous region of Italy.
Sardinian is often seen as the closest language to Latin. It has had to fight for decades to get basic recognition by the Italian government.
Images for kids
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Hunter, Nuragic bronze statuette
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Location of the Sardinian tribes, as described by the Roman sources.
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Length of the Roman rule and emergence of the Romance languages.
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The condaghe of Saint Peter of Silki (1065–1180), written in Sardinian.
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The first page of the Arborean Carta de Logu
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Sardinian-language statutes of Sassari from the 13th–14th centuries
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Three gravestones dating to the second half of the 19th century in the historic cemetery of Ploaghe (Logudoro), wherein a total of 39 gravestones have writings in Sardinian and 3 in Italian; a process of language shift may be observed therefrom, starting inter alia from the displayed usage of Italian given names, rather than the local Sardinian ones.
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The Kingdom of Sardinia in 1856.
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A bilingual sign in Villasor's town hall.
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Bilingual No-smoking sign in Sardinian and Italian
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Church of the Pater Noster (Jerusalem, Israel), Lord's Prayer plaque in Sardinian
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Bilingual road signs in Pula.
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Vowel changes from Latin to early Sardinian.
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The word for "peace" in all the varieties of Sardinian.
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Corso-Sardinian (orange and yellow) with regard to Sardinian proper (green).
See also
In Spanish: Idioma sardo para niños
