Sardinian, Sassarese

A language of Italy

ISO 639: sdc
Alternate Names: Northwestern Sardinian, Sassarese
Population: 100,000 (Salminen 1999).
Location:: Sardinia region: Sassari province.
Language Status: 6b (Threatened). Statutory language of provincial identity in northwest Sardinia (1999, Linguistic Minority Defense Act No. 482, Article 2).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Southern, Sardinian
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 81% with Gallurese [sdn], 76% with standard Italian [ita]. A member of macrolanguage Sardinian [srd].
Language Use: Some young people, all adults. Many children learn the language but often stop using it at school age (Salminen 2007).
Language Development: Growing movement to recognize Sardinian as part of linguistic and cultural heritage. Bible portions: 1863–1866.
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Sardinian, Sassarese
Writing: Latin script [Latn].
Other Comments: Influenced by Ligurian [lij] and Pisan (Pisa, northwest coast of Italy). They call Campidanese [sro] and Logudorese [src] Sard, and the people Sards, but do not include themselves or their language in those terms.

Location: Sardinia region: Sassari province.