Sardinian, Logudorese
A language of Italy
| Population | 500,000 (Salminen 1993). |
| Region | Central Sardinia. |
| Alternate names | Central Sardinian, Logudorese, Sard, Sardarese |
| Dialects | Nuorese, Northern Logudorese, Barbaricino, Southwestern Logudorese. No one form of Sardinian is selected as standard for literary purposes. Logudorese is different from other Sardinian varieties. Lexical similarity: 68% with Standard Italian, 73% with Sassarese [sdc] and Cagliare dialect of Sardinian, Campidanese [sro], 70% with Gallurese [sdn]. ‘Sardinian’ has 85% lexical similarity with Italian, 80% with French, 78% with Portuguese, 76% with Spanish, 74% with Romanian [ron] and Ladin [lld]. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Southern, Sardinian A member of macrolanguage Sardinian [srd] (Italy). |
| Language use | Generally, central and southern areas. Prestige is equal to Italian in some contexts, including writing. Growing movement to recognize Sard as part of linguistic and cultural heritage. Also use Italian. |
| Language development | Bible portions: 1858–1861. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Christian. |
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