Southern Romance languages

Corsica and Sardinia

The Southern Romance languages make up a sub-group of the family of Romance languages suggested by Ethnologue and Glottolog, but with little support among other linguists.

According to Ethnologue and Glottolog, the family would include all the languages of the Sardo-Corsican archipelago: Sardinian, Corsican, the Gallurese dialect, and the dialects of Sassarese. In mainstream linguistics, Corsican is instead considered to be the closest tongue to the Tuscan dialect of Italian and closer to standard Italian than most other proper Italian dialects, while Sardinian is usually set apart from the Italo-Dalmatian family, being considered a distinct language and a Romance group of its own.

Glottolog additionally classifies Neapolitan as a divergent branch within Southern Romance; this as well is rejected by linguists.

Classification^[1][2]

• Corsican:
  • Corsican (corsu) - Corsica;
  • Gallurese (gadduresu) - Sardinia;
• Sassarese (sassaresu), transitional between Corsican and Sardinian - Sardinia.
• Sardinian (sardu):
  • Logudorese (sardu logudoresu) - Sardinia;
    • Nuorese (sardu nugoresu) - Sardinia;
  • Campidanese (sardu campidanesu) - Sardinia.

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