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  Sardinian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sardinian (Sardu, Saldu) is the main language spoken in the island of Sardinia, Italy, remarkable for being the most conservative of the Romance languages and for its Paleosardinian substratum.
The recognition of the Sardinian language as a characteristic ethnic element is supported not only by independentist movements, but is also supported by a wide percentage of local population as a whole, as well as the international support of the Sardinian diaspora.
Sardinians took advantage of this possibility to express their opposition to Fascism by singing the Hymn, as did King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy on several official occasions, when the Crown needed to remind Mussolini of its superior position.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sardinian_language   (2610 words)

  
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Sardinian (Sardu) is the main language spoken in the island of Sardinia, Italy, and it is considered the most conservative of all Romance languages.
Sardinian language is one of the principal elements of the peculiar sardinian cultural heritage, and a really huge activity is running in current times in order to favour its study and the development of its acknowledgement.
Sardinian language in Italy The national anthem of the Kingdom of Sardinia (and Piedmont) was the Hymnu Sardu (aka Cunservet Deus su Re), obviously in Sardinian language, which was partially substituted by the Savoy's March when Italy was unified.
wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sardinian_language.html   (2458 words)

  
 Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sardinia /sɑː(ɹ)ˈdɪnɪə/ (Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna or Sardinna in the Sardinian language, is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica.
In the island of San Pietro, the language spoken is from Liguria Genoa.
The native population of the city of Alghero (S'Alighera in Sardinian, L'Alguer in Catalan) was expelled and the city repopulated by the Catalan invaders, whose descendants still speak Catalan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sardinia   (1643 words)

  
 EUROPA - Education and Training - Europa - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study
The Sardinian language is spoken on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, which lies to the south of Corsica and to the west of Italy.
Sardinian consists in fact of two major dialectal groups, each serving as a koine to one of the two parts of Sardinia: in the north there is the Logudorian dialect, comprising numerous dialectal variants, while in the south there is Campidanian with its far less distinguishable variants.
The general attitude of speakers to their Sardinian language is that it is slowly declining, that it is constantly losing ground in every sphere of society, that the younger generations use it less frequently than their elders and that it is becoming less and less useful in modern Sardinian society.
ec.europa.eu /education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/it11_en.html   (2744 words)

  
 Sardinian - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Sardinia (Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardegna in Italian, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica.
The most spoken languages in Sardinia are Italian and Sardinian, a Romance language with obscure roots in Phoenician, Etruscan language, and Near Eastern languages.
In 1792, Jean-Paul Marat, son of a Sardinian father and a Swiss mother, was one of the triumvirate leading the French Revolution.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php?title=Sardinian&printable=yes   (1463 words)

  
 SARDINIAN LANGUAGE
The Sardinian language is considered the most characteristic of Latin languages; in fact, while the other neo-Latin tongues have been elaborated during the centuries, the Sardinian one in its isolation, preserves the original peculiarity of the original languages - Greek and Latin.
The interest for the Sardinian language continues also in the 18th century while Italian spread all over the country.
Sardinian means various dialectal forms excluding the dialects of Alghero, Catalan linguistics ilse, and of Carloforte and Calasetta, Genoan linguistics isle.
www.mondosardegna.net /eng/linguasarda/linguasarda.htm   (168 words)

  
 Sardinia - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Sardinia [[Template:IPA]] (Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica.
These spoken languages were spread by the first settlers to Corsica, giving then origin to a new variety of language Sardinian-Corsican language, stictly connected with southern Corsican dialects (Sartinesu).
The native population of the city of Alghero (S'Alighera in Sardinian, L'Alguer in Catalan) was expelled and the city repopulated by the Catalan invaders, whose descendants spoke Catalan till quite recently.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Sardinia   (1426 words)

  
 Sardinian Learn, Sardinian Reference,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sardinian (Sardu) is the main language spoken in the island of Sardinia, Italy, and is one of the most conservative Romance languages.
The basic origins of the Sardinian language (sometimes called Paleosardinian) are still obscure, due mostly to the lack of documents, as Sardinian appeared as a written form only in the Middle Ages.
As for Sardinian contact with other peoples (here referring mainly to the Iberian peninsula), it has been said that Paleosardinian should be expected to have notable similarities with the Iberian language and the Sicilian language: the suffix -'ara, for example, in proparoxitones (Bertoldi and Terracini proposed it indicated plural forms).
www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Sardinian.htm?CalledFrom=211716   (1390 words)

  
 Sardinian language
The matter is that Sardinian is a language of Roman colonists who came here early in Roman epoch and met pre-Indo-European population which spoke a language of unknown origin.
Nowadays Sardinian is spoken together with Italian especially in the central and southern regions of the island, and is considered endangered because the number of its speakers is declining all the time.
The pronunciation of Sardinian can seem a little bit strange for a Romance language: it uses dd instead of Latin ll in the middle of the word, bb instead of Latin qu, and lots of other changes of initial and middle consonants, some of which are obviously non-Indo-European.
members.tripod.com /~babaev/tree/sardinian.html   (316 words)

  
 Sardinian language and alphabet
Sardinian is a Romance language with about 1.2 million speakers in Sardinia.
Sardinian is a descendant of the ancient form of Latin brought to Sardinia by the Romans in 238 BC.
Between the 14th and 17th centuries, Catalan and Spanish were the languages of administration in Sardinia.
www.omniglot.com /writing/sardinian.htm   (224 words)

  
 3. Sardinia Culture Tradition and Sardinian Language
Sardinia has not often been able of to find in his children, the Sardinians, exponents that they knew it to represent, have been forced therefore to suffer decisions that didn't keep track of his specificity and he/she anchors continuous today to have difficulty in to also mature a sense of inside cooperation.
Sardinian language: from the tradition an ancient culture
From different years a great conscience is being developed related to the tradition and to the guardianship of the Sardinian language.
www.fontesarda.it /us/sardecom.htm   (538 words)

  
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Sardinian or Sardo, is the collective name for a group of Romance languages spoken on the island of Sardinia by nearly 1 million people.
Due to the difficulty encountered by the rest of Italians to understand the Sardinian language so different to Italian, the Sards for their facility in learning Italian had no difficulty to communicate with outsiders.
Today recognized as a language, attention is given by all levels of Government, Universities, Churches etc., for the preservation of Sardinia ancient language and traditions.
web.tiscali.it /gruppofolksalesiano/language.htm   (166 words)

  
 Sardinian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sardinian is an Indo-European language spoken primarily on the Italian Island of Sardinia.
It is language of Roman colonists who came to Sardinia early in the Roman epoch and met pre Indo-European people which spoke a language of unknown origin.
As Sardinia was not invaded by large groups of migrants too often in its history, the language has preserved a number of features very archaic and dissimilar to most other Romance languages.
www.flw.com /languages/sardinian.htm   (97 words)

  
 Lucia Grimaldi & Eva-Maria Remberger, The Promotion of the Sardinian Language and Culture via the Internet
The Sardinian Regional Government has established a Commission for the development of a Sardinian standard and at present there is an official proposal of standardisation being discussed by regional politicians, which has given rise to highly controversial reactions.
Since the vitality of a language depends on its natural usage in as many situations and contexts as possible, one of the principle objectives with our internet project is an active extension of Sardinian language usage on the internet.
These informants, Sardinian native speakers who wish to contribute with lexical information from their local villages, have to answer a very short questionnaire in order to assure a minimal of sociolinguistic data which are then archived in a DBM database.
www.lingrom.fu-berlin.de /sardu/grimaldi_remberger.html   (4485 words)

  
 Sardinian language in skype - Skype Forums
Sardinian language is spoken by 1.600.000 people and there are italian and sardinian laws that give to this language the same "dignity".
Sardinian (Sardu, Saldu) is the main language spoken in the island of Sardinia, Italy, remarkable for being the most conservative Neolatine language and for its Paleosardinian substratum.
The functionality to make your own language files is already in place, it just needs a few contributing people that speak the language and viola.
forum.skype.com /viewtopic.php?p=259925   (299 words)

  
 Activitaly Sardegna -The Sardinian Language
The Sardinian language, or “Sardo”, is a genuine language (officially recognised by a regional law in 1997 and then on a national level in 1999), even though it is fragmented into numerous dialects, which differ from zone to zone and often even from one town to he next.
Among the idioms of Latin origin, the Sardinian language is the one which best preserves traits and words from the mother tongue.
Today there is a strong movement to defend and promote the local language, “sa limba”, and this has led to the diffusion of a cultural bilingualism in the literary sphere, at university, and in public bodies.
www.activsardegna.com /lingua_en.htm   (540 words)

  
 Euromosaic - Sardinian language use survey
This survey was undertaken by a team of Sardinian speakers in ten sampling points distributed across Sardinia involving the provinces of Sassarese, Nuorese, Monte Ferru, Barbagia, Oristano, Marmilla, Iglesiente, Campidano di Cagliari and the city of Cagliari.
Indeed one is left with the impression of Sardinian as a language which has a fairly adequate level of familiarity, the basis for language reproduction through the community and the family but which is in retreat.
The retreat of Sardinian is dramatic, with fewer than 10% of the children using even as much Sardinian as Italian together and three quarters of the children using Italian exclusively together.
www.uoc.es /euromosaic/web/document/sard/an/e1/e1.html   (2074 words)

  
 3.3.1 Sardinia Comunication on Sardinian Language and Culture February 2000
For explanations and registrations, to turn to the office of the Culture and the Sardinian language - 5°P. town hall - or to phone the n.
The seminar comes at the end of the first cycle of news-bulletins in language campidanese (financed by the Region through the law 26) and to the beginning of the second cycle of Mediterradio, the transmission that puts in connection Radio Press e Radio Corse Frequency Mora e Radio Flash of Livorno.
The seminar turns to the operators of the communication, to the journalists and the protagonists of the debate on the language and the culture in Sardinia.
www.fontesarda.it /us/limbac01.htm   (369 words)

  
 Official language Article, Officiallanguage Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An official language is a language that is specificallydesignated to be so in the constitutions of countries, states, and other territories.
In fact, even if a language is officially recognized by a state, even if it is taught at schools and evenif it is used in official communication, it doesn't have to be an official language.
As a consequence of colonialism and/or neocolonialism, in some countries in Africa and in the Philippines the official and learning languages (French or English) are not the national languages or the most widely spoken.
www.anoca.org /languages/countries/official_language.html   (367 words)

  
 The Construction of Sardinian Identity
From the beginning of the 1800s to now, the processes of construction and elaboration of a sense of Sardinian national belonging have engaged the efforts of intellectual elites, which are always intent on the construction and now in the de-construction of a Sardinian identity.
They want to institute the Sardinian Unified Language, an artificial language created by experts with the capacity to distill it from the different Sardinian languages and dialects now in use (mainly from the Campidanese and Logudorese dialects).
However, this opens a major debate, given that the opposition to this new unified Sardinian comes from local communities who accuse it of being a “coffee table language” and ask for the recognition of their linguistic dignity in all its multiple variants.
www.aaanet.org /press/an/0405dia-comm2.htm   (1317 words)

  
 Multilinguismo? Sì, grazie!"- Materiali a cura dell'Antenna del Servizio di Traduzione   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I use a lot of examples taken from the Sardinian language which has a most interesting phonology because of the range of possible pronunciations according to context.
The experiences that were true for "state" languages (whose success was due, among other reasons, to standardisation) cannot be applied to all languages.
A minority language cannot hope to compete with a dominant language unless it appeals on a different level, the most intimate, free and easy linguistic identity.
www.uemilano.it /multilinguismo/norma_bolognesi_en.html   (1177 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tavolara island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sardinia (American pronunciation)(Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna or Sardinna in the Sardinian language, is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica.
In geology, a massif is a section of the Earths crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures.
In the 18th century, Sardinian lore claimed the sheep of Tavolara had gold teeth.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tavolara-island   (1328 words)

  
 Sardinia
The religious linguistic references are not at all casual; on the contrary, they are intended to underscore, right from the start, the origin and strictly religious nature of the first literary manifestations in the island, subjected, as is well known, to recurrent foreign dominations for two thousand years, a considerable time span.
On the other hand, the awareness of speaking one's own autonomous language has certainly not favored that process of osmosis, of continual exchange between language and dialect and between dialect and language which has taken place in many parts of Italy, to the mutual enrichment of both.
The very particular Sardinian versification, which had so struck Pasolini that he came to declare that "the exceptionl nature of the metrical forms and stylemes is even more surprising" than in his own Friuli (op.
home.att.net /~l.bonaffini/sardegna.htm   (1517 words)

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