Sardinian, Sassarese
A language of Italy
| Population | 100,000 (Salminen 1993). |
| Region | Northwest Sardinia. |
| Alternate names | Northwestern Sardinian, Sassarese |
| Dialects | Lexical similarity: 81% with Gallurese [sdn], 76% with Standard Italian. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Southern, Sardinian A member of macrolanguage Sardinian [srd] (Italy). |
| Language use | Growing movement to recognize Sard as part of cultural and linguistic heritage. |
| Language development | Bible portions: 1863–1866. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| 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. |
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