Sardinian language

Sardinian
Sardu, Limba / Lingua Sarda
Native to Italy
Region Sardinia
Native speakers
 1 million  (1993–2007)[1]
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Italy
Sardinia
Regulated by Limba Sarda Comuna code
Language codes
ISO 639-1 sc
ISO 639-2 srd
ISO 639-3 srd – inclusive code
Individual codes:
sro – Campidanese
src – Logudorese
Glottolog sard1257[2]
Linguasphere

51-AAA-s +(Corso-Sardinian)

51-AAA-pd & -pe
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Languages and dialects of Sardinia. Sardinian is yellow (Logudorese) and orange (Campidanese).

Sardinian (sardu, limba sarda, lingua sarda) is a Romance language primarily spoken on three-quarters of the island of Sardinia (Italy). A number of scholars consider it the most conservative Romance language,[3] and its substratum (Paleo-Sardinian) has also been researched. A 1949 study by Italian-American linguist Mario Pei, analyzing the degree of difference from a language's parent (Latin, in the case of Romance languages) by comparing phonology, inflection, syntax, vocabulary, and intonation, indicated the following percentages (the higher the percentage, the greater the distance from Latin):[4] Sardinian 8%, Italian 12%, Spanish 20%, Romanian 23.5%, Occitan 25%, Portuguese 31%, and French 44%.

Since 1997, the island's languages (including Sardinian) have been recognized and protected by regional and national laws. Several written standards, most recently the Limba Sarda Comuna (Common Sardinian Language),[5] have been created in an attempt to unify the two main varieties of the language, Campidanese and Logudorese, which have their own literature and sociolinguistic ancient tradition.

History

Sardinia's relative isolation from mainland Europe encouraged the development of a Romance language preserving traces of its indigenous, pre-Roman language. The language is posited to have substratal influences from Nuragic, Basque,[6] and Etruscan.[7] Adstratal influences include Catalan, Spanish and Italian.

Origins

The origins of the Sardinian language (sometimes known as Paleo-Sardinian) are obscure, since Sardinian was first written only in the Middle Ages, and a number of theories exist about its development. Research has attempted to discover obscure, indigenous, pre-Romance roots; the root sard, present in many place names and describing the island's people, is reportedly from Sherden (one of the Peoples of the Sea), although this assertion is quite debated.

In 1984, Massimo Pittau said he found in the Etruscan language the etymology of many Latin words after comparing it with the Nuragic language(s).[7] Etruscan elements, formerly considered originating in Latin, would indicate a connection between the ancient Sardinian culture and the Etruscans. According to Pittau, the Etruscan and Nuragic language(s) are descended from Lydian (and therefore Indo-European) as a consequence of contact with Etruscans and other Tyrrhenians from Sardis described by Herodotus.[7] Although Pittau suggests that the Tirrenii landed in Sardinia and the Etruscans landed in modern Tuscany, his views are not shared by most Etruscologists.

According to Bertoldi and Terracini, Paleo-Sardinian has similarities with the Iberic languages and Siculian; for example, the suffix ara in proparoxytones indicated the plural. Terracini proposed the same for suffixes in -/àna/, -/ànna/, -/énna/, -/ònna/ + /r/ + a paragogic vowel (such as the toponym Bunnànnaru). Rohlfs, Butler and Craddock add the suffix -/ini/ (such as the toponym Barùmini) as a unique element of Paleo-Sardinian. Suffixes in /a, e, o, u/ + -rr- found a correspondence in north Africa (Terracini), in Iberia (Blasco Ferrer) and in southern Italy and Gascony (Rohlfs), with a closer relationship to Basque (Wagner and Hubschmid). However, these early links to a Basque precursor have been questioned by some Basque linguists.[8] According to Terracini, suffixes in -/ài/, -/éi/, -/òi/, and -/ùi/ are common to Paleo-Sardinian and northern African languages. Pittau emphasized that this concerns terms originally ending in an accented vowel, with an attached paragogic vowel; the suffix resisted Latinization in some place names, which show a Latin body and a Nuragic suffix. According to Bertoldi, some toponyms ending in -/ài/ and -/asài/ indicated an Anatolic influence. The suffix -/aiko/, widely used in Iberia and possibly of Celtic origin, and the ethnic suffix in -/itanos/ and -/etanos/ (for example, the Sardinian Sulcitanos) have also been noted as Paleo-Sardinian elements (Terracini, Ribezzo, Wagner, Hubschmid and Faust).

Linguists Blasco Ferrer (2009, 2010) and Morvan (2009) have attempted to revive a theoretical connection with Basque by linking words such as Sardinian ospile ("fresh grazing for cattle") and Basque ozpil; Sardinian arrotzeri ("vagabond") and Basque arrotz ("stranger"); Sardinian arru ("stone, stony") and Basque arri ("stone"), and Gallurese (South Corsican and North Sardinian) zerru ("pig") and Basque zerri. Genetic data on the distribution of HLA antigens have suggested a common origin for the Basques and Sardinians.[9]

Roman period

Although Roman domination, which began in 238 BC, brought Latin to Sardinia it was unable to completely supplant the pre-Roman Sardinian language. Some obscure roots remained unchanged, and in many cases the Latin accepted local roots (like nur, which makes its appearance in nuraghe, Nùgoro and many other toponyms). Barbagia derives from the Greek Ό βάρβαρος-ου ("stuttering"), because its people could not speak Latin well. Cicero called Sardinians latrones mastrucati ("thieves with rough wool cloaks") to emphasise Roman superiority.[10] Some linguists assert that modern Sardinian, being part of the Island Romance group,[11] was the first language to split off from the others evolving from Latin, called Continental Romance.

During this period, there was a linguistic influence between Corsica and a portion of northern Sardinia. In southern Sardinia, evidence favors contacts with Semitic and (later) Byzantine languages. During the first century AD, groups of Hebrews were deported to Sardinia. The Christianization of the island might have caused them to convert to a cult of Antiochus of Sulcis to preserve their ethnicity in a Christian form. This contact with Hebrews, followed by another deportation of Christians, may have lasted for two centuries and contributed to give rise to some peculiar words (for example, the word chenàpura standing for Friday).[12] This Latin cultural domination makes Sardinian a Romance language (or, more precisely, a neo-Latin language) with phonetic and morphological features resembling Old Latin.

Although Sardinia was then influenced (and controlled) by the Byzantine Empire, Greek did not enter its language except for ritual or formal expressions in Latin using Greek structure. Evidence for this is found in the condaghes, the first written documents in Sardinian. Some toponyms, such as Jerzu (thought to derive from the Greek khérsos, "untilled" and the personal names Mikhaleis, Konstantine and Basilis) demonstrate Greek influence.

Giudicati period

See also: Giudicati

Sardinian was the official language of the Giudicati, Byzantine districts that became independent after the Arab expansion in the Mediterranean cut the ties between the island and Byzantium. Sardinian had a greater number of archaisms and Latinisms than the present language does. Dante Alighieri wrote in his 1302–05 essay De vulgari eloquentia that he would except Sardinians; because they were not Italians, they had no vulgar language of their own.[13][14]

Dante's view has been dismissed, because Sardinian evolved enough to be unintelligible to non-islanders. A popular 12th-century verse quotes the provençal troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: No t'intend plui d'un Toesco / o Sardo o Barbarì ("I don't understand you any more than I understand a German / or a Sardinian or a Berber").[15]

Two pages of an illuminated manuscript
Sardinian-language statutes of Sassari from the 13th–14th centuries

The literature of this period primarily consists of legal documents. The first document containing Sardinian elements is a 1063 donation to the abbey of Montecassino signed by Barisone I of Torres.[16] Other documents are the Carta Volgare (1070–1080) in Campidanese, the 1080 Logudorese Privilege,[17] the 1089 Donation of Torchitorio (in the Marseille archives),[18] the 1190–1206 Marsellaise Chart (in Campidanese)[19] and an 1173 communication between the Bishop Bernardo of Civita and Benedetto, who oversaw the Opera del Duomo in Pisa.[20] Statutes of Sassari are written in Logudorese.[21] The Carta de Logu of the Kingdom of Arborea (1355–1376) would remain in force until 1827.[22][23]

Catalan period

The 1297 feoffment of Sardinia by Pope Boniface VIII led to the Kingdom of Sardinia and a long period of war, ending with a 1409 Catalan victory at Sanluri and the renunciation of the rights of succession signed by William III of Narbonne. During this period the clergy adopted Catalan as their primary language, relegating Sardinian to secondary status. According to attorney Sigismondo Arquer (author of Sardiniae brevis historia et descriptio), although Catalan was spoken in the cities Sardinian prevailed in rural areas.

Despite spoken Catalan's popularity on the island at this time (which had a lasting influence on Sardinian), there are few written records of Sardinian. One is the 15th-century Sa Vitta et sa Morte, et Passione de sanctu Gavinu, Brothu et Ianuariu, written by Antòni Canu (1400–1476) and published in 1557: Tando su rey barbaru su cane renegadu / de custa resposta multu restayt iradu / & issu martiriu fetit apparigiare / itu su quale fesit fortemente ligare / sos sanctos martires cum bonas catenas / qui li segaant sos ossos cum sas veinas / & totu sas carnes cum petenes de linu ... . Rimas Spirituales, by Hieronimu Araolla, "glorif[ied] and enrich[ed] Sardinian, our language" (magnificare et arrichire sa limba nostra sarda) as Spanish, French and Italian poets had done for their languages (la Deffense et illustration de la langue françoyse and il Dialogo delle lingue).[24] Antonio Lo Frasso, a poet born in Alghero (a city he remembered fondly)[25] who spent his life in Barcelona, wrote lyric poetry in Sardinian:[26]  ... Non podende sufrire su tormentu / de su fogu ardente innamorosu. / Videndemi foras de sentimentu / et sensa una hora de riposu, / pensende istare liberu e contentu / m'agato pius aflitu e congoixosu, / in essermi de te senora apartadu, / mudende ateru quelu, ateru istadu ... .

Spanish period

In 1624, with the reorganization of the monarchy led by the Count-Duke of Olivares, Sardinia would leave the Aragonese sphere of influence for the Spanish one. However, Spanish was perceived as an elitist language and Sardinian retained its importance.[27] A 1620 proclamation is in the Bosa archives.[28] In "Legendariu de Santas Virgines, et Martires de Iesu Christu", the Orgolese priest Ioan Matheu Garipa called Sardinian the closest living relative of classical Latin: Las apo voltadas in sardu menjus qui non in atera limba pro amore de su vulgu [...] qui non tenjan bisonju de interprete pro bi-las decrarare, et tambene pro esser sa limba sarda tantu bona, quanta participat de sa latina, qui nexuna de quantas limbas si plàtican est tantu parente assa latina formale quantu sa sarda.

Piedmontese period and Kingdom of Italy

The War of the Spanish Succession gave Sardinia to Austria, whose sovereignty was confirmed by the 1713–14 treaties of Utrecht and Rastatt. In 1717 a Spanish fleet reoccupied Cagliari, and the following year Sardinia was ceded to Victor Amadeus II of Savoy in exchange for Sicily.

During the Savoyard period, a number of essays written by philologist Matteo Madau[29] and professor (and senator) Giovanni Spano attempted to establish a unified orthography based on Logudorese, just like Florentine would become the basis for Italian.[30] However, the Piedmontese government imposed Italian on Sardinia on July 1760,[31][32][33] implementing an island-wide assimilation to bind the island to Italy.

Carlo Baudi di Vesme (Cuneo, 1809 – Turin, 1877) proposed the suppression of Sardinian in order to make the islanders "civilized" Italians,[34] and Piedmontese cartographers attempted to replace Sardinian place names with Italian ones. Despite the assimilation policy the anthem of the Piedmontese Kingdom of Sardinia was the Hymnu Sardu (or Cunservet Deus su Re), with Sardinian lyrics.

During the mobilization for World War I, the Italian Army compelled all Sardinians to enlist as Italian subjects and raised the Sassari Infantry Brigade on 1 March 1915 at Tempio Pausania and Sinnai. Unlike other Italian infantry brigades, Sassari's was recruited on Sardinia (including its officers). It was the only Italian unit with an anthem in a regional language: Dimonios ("Devils"), by Luciano Sechi. Its title derives from Rote Teufel (German for "red devils").

Under Fascism non-Italian languages were banned, and surnames were changed to sound more Italian.[35] During this period, the Sardinian Hymn of the Piedmontese Kingdom was a chance to speak a regional language without penalty; as a royal tradition, it could not be forbidden.

Present

Sign with graphic of crossed-out cigarette
No-smoking sign in Sardinian and Italian

The assimilation policy continued after World War II, with historical sites and ordinary objects renamed in Italian.[36] The Ministry of Public Education reportedly requested the monitoring of Sardinian teachers.[37] The rejection of the indigenous language, along with a rigid model of Italian-language education,[38] led to the difficult scholarization of Sardinians. Even now, Sardinia currently has the highest rate of school and university drop-out in Italy.[39]

During the 1990s, Sardinian, Albanian, Catalan, German, Greek, Slovenian, Croatian, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Ladin and Occitan were recognized as minority languages by Law 482-1999.[40] Nevertheless, in many Italian libraries and universities books about the Sardinian language are still classified as Linguistica italiana (Italian linguistics), Dialetti italiani (Italian dialects) or Dialettologia italiana (Italian dialectology),[41][42] because Sardinian is considered an "Italian dialect" by some[43] (even at the institutional level).[44] The language has been stigmatized as indicative of a lack of education.[12][45]

Bilingual sign pointing to a church
Bilingual Italian–Sardinian road sign in Siniscola

Despite campaigns to give Sardinian equal status with Italian as a means of cultural identity, a number of factors like immigration from mainland Italy, the interior rural exodus to urban areas[46] and the use of Italian as a prerequisite for jobs and social advancement actually hinder any policy set up to promote the language.[47][48][49] For example, despite bilingual-education laws, the use of Sardinian in schools is still discouraged.[50] Therefore, UNESCO classifies Sardinian as "definitely endangered", because "many children learn the language, but some of them cease to use it throughout the school years".[51] At present, language use is far from stable: reports show that, while an estimated 68 percent of the islanders have a good oral command of Sardinian, language ability among the children drops to around 13 percent;[52][53] some linguists cite the low number of Sardinian-speaking children as indicative of language decline.[54] Instead, most of the younger generation speaks a mixture of Italian and Sardinian (considered regional Italian by linguists) that is called italiànu porcheddìnu ("piggy Italian") by native Sardinian speakers.[55] Today, speakers of Sardinian mainly live in the sparsely populated interior of the island.

A bill proposed by former prime minister Mario Monti's cabinet would have lowered Sardinian's protection level,[56] distinguishing between languages protected by international agreements (German, Slovenian, French and Ladin) and indigenous languages. This bill, which was not implemented (Italy has signed, but not ratified, the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages),[57][58] triggered a reaction on the island.[59][60][61][62] Students have expressed an interest in taking all (or part) of their exit examinations in Sardinian.[63][64][65][66][67][68]

Church of the Pater Noster (Jerusalem), Lord's Prayer plaque in Sardinian.

In response to a 2013 Italian initiative to remove bilingual signs, a group of Sardinians began a virtual campaign on Google Maps to replace Italian place names with the original Sardinian names. After about one month, Google changed the place names back to Italian.[69][70][71]

In 2015, all the political parties in the Sardinian regional council have reached an agreement involving a series of amendments to the old 1997 law in order to introduce the optional teaching of the language in Sardinia's schools. The law, if approved, will be implemented the same year.[72][73][74]

Phonology

All dialects of Sardinian have phonetic features that are archaic relative to other Romance languages. The degree of archaism varies, with the dialect spoken in the Province of Nuoro being considered the most conservative. Medieval evidence indicates that the language spoken on Sardinia and Corsica at the time was similar to modern Nuorese. The remaining dialects are thought to have innovated as the result of Italian and Spanish influences.

The examples listed below are from the Logudorese dialect:

Sardinian contains the following phonetic innovations:

Although the latter two features were acquired during Spanish rule, the others indicate a deeper relationship between ancient Sardinia and the Iberian world; the retroflex d, l and r are found in southern Italy, Tuscany and Asturias, and were probably involved in the palatalization process of the Latin clusters -ll-, pl-, cl- (-ll- > Castilian and Catalan -ll- [ʎ], Gascon -th [c]; cl- > Galician-Portuguese ch- [tʃ], Ital. chi- [kj]).

According to Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, Sardinian has the following phonemes:

Vowels

The five vowels /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/, without length differentiation.

Consonants

Bilabial Labio-
dental		 Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Retroflex Palatal Velar
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ gn /ɲ/
Plosive p /p/ b /b/ t /t/ d /d/ dd /ɖ/ k /k/ g /ɡ/
Affricate tz /ts/ z /dz/ ch, c /tʃ/ g /dʒ/
Fricative b /β/ f /f/ v /v/ (th /θ/) d /ð/ s, ss /s/ s /z/ sc /ʃ/ x /ʒ/ g /ɣ/
Tap r /ɾ/
Trill rr /r/
Lateral l /l/
Approximant j /j/

There are three series of plosives or corresponding approximants:

In Cagliari and neighboring dialects, the soft [d] is assimilated to the rhotic consonant [ɾ]: digitus > didu = diru (finger).

Articulation point labio-dental dentoalveolar retroflex palatal velar from Latin
voiceless p t k double voiceless
double voiced bb dd ɖɖ – kw > bb, bd > dd, etc.
approximants b [β] d [ð] ɡ [ɣ] single stops

The double-voiced retroflex stop /ɖɖ/ (written dd) derives from the former retroflex lateral approximant /ɭɭ/.

Fricatives

Affricates

Nasals

Liquids

Some permutations of l and r are seen; in most dialects, a preconsonant l (for example, lt or lc) becomes r: Latin "altum" > artu, marralzu = marrarzu, "rock".

In palatal context, Latin l changed into [dz], [ts], [ldz] [ll] or [dʒ], rather than the [ʎ] of Italian: achizare (Italian accigliare), *volia > bòlla = bòlza = bòza, "wish" (Italian vòglia), folia > fogia = folla = foza, "leaf" (Italian foglia), filia > filla = fidza = fiza, "daughter" (Italian figlia).

Morphology

Sardinian's distinctive features are:

Varieties

Sardinia has historically had a small population scattered across isolated cantons. Its language is divided into two major dialects: Logudorese (su logudoresu), spoken in the north, and Campidanese (su campidanesu), spoken in the south. They differ primarily in phonetics, which does not hamper intelligibility. Logudorese is considered the more conservative dialect, with the Nuorese subdialect the most conservative. It has retained the classical Latin pronunciation of the stop velars (kena versus cena, "supper"), the front middle vowels (compare Campidanese iotacism, probably from Byzantine Greek)[75] and assimilation of close-mid vowels (cane versus cani, "dog" and gattos versus gattus, "cats"). Labio-velars become plain labials (limba versus lingua, "language" and abba versus acua, "water"). I is prosthesized before consonant clusters beginning in s (iscala versus Campidanese scala, "stairway" and iscola versus scola, "school").

An east-west strip of small villages in central Sardinia speaks a transitional dialect (Sardu de mesania) between Logudorese and Campidanese. Examples include is limbas (the languages) and is abbas (the waters). Campidanese is the dialect spoken in the southern half of Sardinia (including Cagliari, the metropolis of the Roman province), influenced by Rome, Carthage, Costantinople and Late Latin. Examples include is fruminis (the rivers) and is domus (the houses).

Notes

  1. ↑ Sardinian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Campidanese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Logudorese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sardinian". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Contini & Tuttle, 1982: 171; Blasco Ferrer, 1989: 14
  4. ↑ Pei, Mario (1949). Story of Language. ISBN 03-9700-400-1.
  5. ↑ SardegnaCultura – Limba Sarda Comuna
  6. ↑ Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, ed. 2010. Paleosardo: Le radici linguistiche della Sardegna neolitica (Paleosardo: The Linguistic Roots of Neolithic Sardinian). De Gruyter Mouton
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 La lingua dei Sardi Nuragici e degli Etruschi – Massimo Pittau
  8. ↑ Trask, L. The History of Basque Routledge: 1997 ISBN 0-415-13116-2
  9. ↑ Arnaiz-Villena A, Rodriguez de Córdoba S, Vela F, Pascual JC, Cerveró J, Bootello A. – HLA antigens in a sample of the Spanish population: common features among Spaniards, Basques, and Sardinians. – Hum Genet. 1981;58(3):344-8.
  10. ↑ M. TVLLI CICERONIS PRO M. SCAVRO ORATIO - The Latin Library
  11. ↑ Koryakov Y.B. Atlas of Romance languages. Moscow, 2001
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Giovanna Tonzanu, Sa limba sarda (article written in Italian)
  13. ↑ Dantis Alagherii De Vulgari Eloquentia Liber Primus, The Latin Library: Sardos etiam, qui non Latii sunt sed Latiis associandi videntur, eiciamus, quoniam soli sine proprio vulgari esse videntur, gramaticam tanquam simie homines imitantes: nam domus nova et dominus meus locuntur. (Lib. I, XI, 7)
  14. ↑ De Vulgari Eloquentia 's Italian paraphrase by Sergio Cecchini
  15. ↑ Le sarde, une langue normale – Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
  16. ↑ "Archivio Cassinense Perg. Caps. XI, n. 11 " e "TOLA P., Codice Diplomatico della Sardegna, I, Sassari, 1984, p. 153"
  17. ↑ In nomine Domini amen. Ego iudice Mariano de Lacon fazo ista carta ad onore de omnes homines de Pisas pro xu toloneu ci mi pecterunt: e ego donolislu pro ca lis so ego amicu caru e itsos a mimi; ci nullu imperatore ci lu aet potestare istu locu de non (n)apat comiatu de leuarelis toloneu in placitu: de non occidere pisanu ingratis: e ccausa ipsoro ci lis aem leuare ingratis, de facerlis iustitia inperatore ci nce aet exere intu locu ...
  18. ↑ E inper(a)tor(e) ki l ati kastikari ista delegantzia e fagere kantu narat ista carta siat benedittu ...
  19. ↑ In nomine de Pater et Filiu et Sanctu Ispiritu. Ego iudigi Salusi de Lacunu cun muiere mea donna (Ad)elasia, uoluntate de Donnu Deu potestando parte de KKaralis, assolbu llu Arresmundu, priori de sanctu Saturru, a fagiri si carta in co bolit. Et ego Arresmundu, l(eba)nd(u) ass(o)ltura daba (su) donnu miu iudegi Salusi de Lacunu, ki mi illu castigit Donnu Deu balaus (a)nnus rt bonus et a issi et a (muiere) sua, fazzu mi carta pro kertu ki fegi cun isus de Maara pro su saltu ubi si ( ... )ari zizimi ( ... ) Maara, ki est de sanctu Saturru. Intrei in kertu cun isus de Maara ca mi machelaa(nt) in issu saltu miu (et canpa)niarunt si megu, c'auea cun istimonius bonus ki furunt armadus a iurari, pro cantu kertàà cun, ca fuit totu de sanctu Sat(ur)ru su saltu. Et derunt mi in issu canpaniu daa petra de mama et filia derectu a ssu runcu terra de Gosantini de Baniu et derectu a bruncu d'argillas e derectu a piskina d'arenas e leuat cabizali derectu a sa bia de carru de su mudeglu et clonpit a su cabizali de uentu dextru de ssa doméstia de donnigellu Cumitayet leuet tuduy su cabizali et essit a ssas zinnigas de moori de silba, lassandu a manca serriu et clonpit deretu a ssu pizariu de sellas, ubi posirus sa dìì su tremini et leuat sa bia maiori de genna (de sa) terra al(ba et) lebat su moori ( ... ) a sa terra de sanctu Saturru, lassandu lla issa a manca et lebat su moori lassandu a (manca) sas cortis d'oriinas de ( ... ) si. Et apirus cummentu in su campaniu, ki fegir(us), d'arari issus sas terras ipsoru ki sunt in su saltu miu et (ll)u castiari s(u) saltu et issus hominis mius de Sinnay arari sas terras mias et issas terras issoru ki sunt in saltu de ssus et issus castiari su saltu(u i)ssoru. Custu fegirus plagendu mi a mimi et a issus homi(nis) mius de Sinnay et de totu billa de Maara. Istimonius ki furunt a ssegari su saltu de pari (et) a poniri sus treminis, donnu Cumita de Lacun, ki fut curatori de Canpitanu, Cumita d'Orrù ( ... ) du, A. Sufreri et Iohanni de Serra, filiu de su curatori, Petru Soriga et Gosantini Toccu Mullina, M( ... ) gi Calcaniu de Pirri, C. de Solanas, C. Pullu de Dergei, Iorgi Cabra de Kerarius, Iorgi Sartoris, Laurenz( ... ) ius, G. Toccu de Kerarius et P. Marzu de Quartu iossu et prebiteru Albuki de Kibullas et P. de Zippari et M. Gregu, M. de Sogus de Palma et G. Corsu de sancta Ilia et A. Carena, G. Artea de Palma et Oliueri de Kkarda ( ... ) pisanu et issu gonpanioni. Et sunt istimonius de logu Arzzoccu de Maroniu et Gonnari de Laco(n) mancosu et Trogotori Dezzori de Dolia. Et est facta custa carta abendu si lla iudegi a manu sua sa curatoria de Canpitanu pro logu salbadori (et) ki ll'(aet) deuertere, apat anathema (daba) Pater et Filiu et Sanctu Ispiritu, daba XII Appostolos et IIII Euangelistas, XVI Prophetas, XXIV Seniores, CCC(XVIII) Sanctus Patris et sorti apat cun Iuda in ifernum inferiori. Siat et F. I. A. T.
  20. ↑ Ego Benedictus operaius de Santa Maria de Pisas Ki la fatho custa carta cum voluntate di Domino e de Santa Maria e de Santa Simplichi e de indice Barusone de Gallul e de sa muliere donna Elene de Laccu Reina appit kertu piscupu Bernardu de Kivita, cum Iovanne operariu e mecum e cum Previtero Monte Magno Kercate nocus pro Santa Maria de vignolas ... et pro sa doma de VillaAlba e de Gisalle cum omnia pertinentia is soro .... essende facta custa campania cun sii Piscupu a boluntate de pare torraremus su Piscupu sa domo de Gisalle pro omnia sua e de sos clericos suos, e issa domo de Villa Alba, pro precu Kindoli mandarun sos consolos, e nois demus illi duas ankillas, ki farmi cojuvatas, suna cun servo suo in loco de rnola, e sattera in templo cun servii de malu sennu: a suna naran Maria Trivillo, a sattera jorgia Furchille, suna fuit de sa domo de Villa Alba, e sattera fuit de Santu Petru de Surake ... Testes Judike Barusone, Episcopu Jovanni de Galtellì, e Prite Petru I upu e Gosantine Troppis e prite Marchu e prite Natale e prite Gosantino Gulpio e prite Gomita Gatta e prite Comita Prias e Gerardu de Conettu ... e atteros rneta testes. Anno dom.milles.centes.septuag.tertio
  21. ↑ Vois messer N. electu potestate assu regimentu dessa terra de Sassari daue su altu Cumone de Janna azes jurare a sancta dei evangelia, qui fina assu termen a bois ordinatu bene et lejalmente azes facher su offitiu potestaria in sa dicta terra de Sassari ...
  22. ↑ A passage outlines the penalties for rape: De chi levarit per forza mygeri coyada. Volemus ed ordinamus chi si alcun homini levarit per forza mugeri coyada, over alcun'attera femina, chi esserit jurada, o isponxellarit alcuna virgini per forza, e dessas dittas causas esserit legittimamenti binchidu, siat iuygadu chi paghit pro sa coyada liras chimbicentas; e si non pagat infra dies bindighi, de chi hat a esser juygadu, siat illi segad'uno pee pro moda ch'illu perdat. E pro sa bagadìa siat juygadu chi paghit liras ducentas, e siat ancu tenudu pro levarilla pro mugeri, si est senza maridu, e placchiat assa femina; e si nolla levat pro mugeri, siat ancu tentu pro coyarilla secundu sa condicioni dessa femina, ed issa qualidadi dess'homini. E si cussas caussas issu non podit fagheri a dies bindighi de chi hat a esser juygadu, seghintilli unu pee per modu ch'illu perdat. E pro sa virgini paghit sa simili pena; e si non hadi dae hui pagari, seghintilli unu pee, ut supra.
  23. ↑ Complete text
  24. ↑ Incipit to "Lettera al Maestro" in "La Sardegna e la Corsica", Ines Loi Corvetto, Torino, UTET Libreria, 1993: Semper happisi desiggiu, Illustrissimu Segnore, de magnificare, & arrichire sa limba nostra Sarda; dessa matessi manera qui sa naturale insoro tottu sas naciones dessu mundu hant magnificadu & arrichidu; comente est de vider per isos curiosos de cuddas.
  25. ↑  ... L'Alguer castillo fuerte bien murado / con frutales por tierra muy divinos / y por la mar coral fino eltremado / es ciudad de mas de mil vezinos...
  26. ↑ Los diez libros de fortuna d'Amor (1573)
  27. ↑ Storia della lingua sarda, vol. 3, a cura di Giorgia Ingrassia e Eduardo Blasco Ferrer
  28. ↑ Jn Dei nomine Amen, noverint comente sende personalmente constituidos in presensia mia notariu et de sos testimongios infrascrittos sa viuda Caterina Casada et Coco mugere fuit de su Nigola Casada jàganu, Franziscu Casada et Joanne Casada Frades, filios de su dittu Nigola et Caterina Casada de sa presente cittade faguinde custas cosas gratis e de certa sciensia insoro, non per forza fraudu, malìssia nen ingannu nen pro nexuna attera sinistra macchinassione cun tottu su megius modu chi de derettu poden et deven, attesu et cunsideradu chi su dittu Nigola Casada esseret siguida dae algunos corpos chi li dein de notte, pro sa quale morte fettin querella et reclamo contra sa persona de Pedru Najtana, pro paura de sa justissia, si ausentait, in sa quale aussensia est dae unu annu pattinde multos dannos, dispesas, traballos e disusios.
  29. ↑ Matteo Madau – Ichnussa
  30. ↑ [ ...] Ciononostante le due opere dello Spano sono di straordinaria importanza, in quanto aprirono in Sardegna la discussione sul "problema della lingua sarda", quella che sarebbe dovuta essere la lingua unificata ed unificante, che si sarebbe dovuta imporre in tutta l'isola sulle particolarità dei singoli dialetti e suddialetti, la lingua della nazione sarda, con la quale la Sardegna intendeva inserirsi tra le altre nazioni europee, quelle che nell'Ottocento avevano già raggiunto o stavano per raggiungere la loro attuazione politica e culturale, compresa la nazione italiana. E proprio sulla falsariga di quanto era stato teorizzato ed anche attuato a favore della nazione italiana, che nell'Ottocento stava per portare a termine il processo di unificazione linguistica, elevando il dialetto fiorentino e toscano al ruolo di "lingua nazionale", chiamandolo "italiano illustre", anche in Sardegna l'auspicata "lingua nazionale sarda" fu denominata "sardo illustre". Massimo Pittau, Grammatica del sardo illustre, Nuoro, pp. 11–12
  31. ↑ The phonology of Campidanian Sardinian : a unitary account of a self-organizing structure, Roberto Bolognesi, The Hague : Holland Academic Graphics
  32. ↑ S'italianu in Sardìnnia , Amos Cardia, Iskra
  33. ↑ La "limba" proibita nella Sardegna del '700 (da "Ritorneremo", una storia tramandata oralmente) – MeiloguNotizie.net
  34. ↑ Considerazioni politiche ed economiche sulla Sardegna (1848): Una innovazione in materia di incivilimento della Sardegna e d’istruzione pubblica, che sotto vari aspetti sarebbe importantissima, si è quella di proibire severamente in ogni atto pubblico civile non meno che nelle funzioni ecclesiastiche, tranne le prediche, l’uso dei dialetti sardi, prescrivendo l’esclusivo impiego della lingua italiana… È necessario inoltre scemare l’uso del dialetto sardo ed introdurre quello della lingua italiana anche per altri non men forti motivi; ossia per incivilire alquanto quella nazione, sì affinché vi siano più universalmente comprese le istruzioni e gli ordini del Governo ...
  35. ↑ Lussu became Lusso, and Pilu changed to Pilo; a large number of Sardinian surnames were affected by this policy.
  36. ↑ Sardinia and the right to self-determination of peoples, Document to be presented to the European left University of Berlin – Enrico Lobina
  37. ↑ Lingua sarda: dall’interramento alla resurrezione?
  38. ↑ Lavinio, 1975, 2003
  39. ↑ Dispersione scolastica, a Sassari e Cagliari il (triste) record italiano (03/07/2014) - Sardiniapost
  40. ↑ Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche, Italian parliament
  41. ↑ “Il sardo è un dialetto”: campagna di boicottaggio contro l’editore Giunti
  42. ↑ "La lingua sarda a rischio estinzione – Disterraus sardus".
  43. ↑ Cosa, lis dolet? – Novas de s'Isportellu linguìsticu sovra-comunale de Planàrgia e Montiferru otzidentale
  44. ↑ I giudici della Cassazione: “Il sardo non è una vera lingua, è solamente un dialetto”. aMpI: “gravissimo attacco alla lingua del popolo sardo” – Il Minuto Notizie Mediterranee
  45. ↑ La lingua sarda oggi: bilinguismo, problemi di identità culturale e realtà scolastica, Maurizio Virdis (Università di Cagliari)
  46. ↑ Compare Irish Gaeltacht (Edwards 1985)
  47. ↑ La standardizzazione del sardo, oppure: quante lingue standard per il sardo? E quali? (Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik)
  48. ↑ Una breve introduzione alla "Questione della lingua sarda" - Etnie, Alexandra Porcu
  49. ↑ "Sardinian language use survey". Euromosaic. To access the data, click on List by languages, Sardinian, then scroll to "Sardinian language use survey".
  50. ↑ "The internet as a Rescue Tool of Endangered Languages: Sardinian – Free University of Berlin" (PDF).
  51. ↑ Salminen, Tapani (1993–1999). "UNESCO Red Book on Endagered Languages: Europe:". Retrieved 2008-06-13.
  52. ↑ La Nuova Sardegna, 04/11/10, Per salvare i segni dell'identità – di Paolo Coretti
  53. ↑ Ai docenti di sardo lezioni in italiano, Sardegna 24 – Cultura
  54. ↑ La situazione sociolinguistica della Sardegna settentrionale, Mauro Maxia
  55. ↑ Lingua e società in Sardegna - Mauro Maxia
  56. ↑ Sardaigne
  57. ↑ La mancata ratifica della Carta rivela le “scorrettezze” del Belpaese L'Europa e il sardo: cartellino giallo per l'Italia – Unione Sarda
  58. ↑ L’Ue richiama l’Italia: non ha ancora firmato la Carta di tutela – Messaggero Veneto
  59. ↑ Università contro spending review «Viene discriminato il sardo» – Sassari Notizie
  60. ↑ Il consiglio regionale si sveglia sulla tutela della lingua sarda
  61. ↑ «Salviamo sardo e algherese in Parlamento», Alguer.it
  62. ↑ Il sardo è un dialetto? – Rossomori
  63. ↑ Do you speak... su Sardu? – Irene Bosu , Focus Sardegna
  64. ↑ Cagliari, promosso a pieni voti il tredicenne che ha dato l’esame in sardo – Sardiniapost
  65. ↑ Eleonora d’Arborea in sardo? La prof. “continentale” dice no – Sardiniapost
  66. ↑ Esame di maturità per la limba: Buddusò, la tesina di Elio Altana scritta in italiano ma discussa in logudorese – La Nuova Sardegna
  67. ↑ Quartu,esame di terza media in campidanese:studenti premiati in Comune – CastedduOnline
  68. ↑ Studentessa dialoga in sardo con il presidente dei docenti – Nuova Sardegna
  69. ↑ Sardinian 'rebels' redraw island map - The Local
  70. ↑ La limba sulle mappe di Google - La Nuova Sardegna
  71. ↑ Su Google Maps spariscono i nomi delle città in sardo - La Nuova Sardegna
  72. ↑ Sardinia's parties strike deal to introduce Sardinian language teaching in schools - Nationalia
  73. ↑ PROPOSTA DI LEGGE N. 167 - Consiglio regionale della Sardegna, XV Legislatura, 19 dicembre 2014
  74. ↑ Lingua sarda, dalla Regione 3 milioni di euro per insegnarla nelle scuole - Sardegna Oggi
  75. ↑ et ipso quoque sermo Sardorum adhuc retinetnon pauca verba sermonis graeci atque ipse loquentium sonum graecisanum quendam prae se fert – Roderigo Hunno Baeza, Caralis Panegyricus, about 1516, manuscript preserved in the University Library of Cagliari

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External links

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