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Sardinian, Gallurese

A language of Italy

ISO 639-3sdn

Population  100,000 (Salminen 1993).
Region  Northeast Sardinia, Gallurese.
Alternate names   Gallurese, Northeastern Sardinian
Dialects  Lexical similarity: 83% with Standard Italian, 81% with Sassarese [sdc], 70% with Logudorese [src], 66% with Cagliare dialect of Sardinian, Campidanese [sro].
Classification  Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Southern, Sardinian
A member of macrolanguage Sardinian [srd] (Italy).
Language use  Growing movement to recognize Sardinian as part of linguistic and cultural heritage.
Language development  Bible portions: 1861–1862.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Influenced by Corsican [cos] and Tuscan varieties of Italian. They call Campidanese [sro] and Logudorese [src] ‘Sard’, and the people ‘Sards’, but do not include themselves or their language in those terms.