Alternate Names: Northwestern Sardinian, Sassarese
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 81% with Gallurese ,, 76% with standard Italian ,. A member of macrolanguage Sardinian ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 100,000 (Salminen 1993).
Language Use: Many children learn the language but often stop using it at school age (Salminen 2007).
Language Development: Growing movement to recognize Sardinian as part of linguistic and cultural heritage. Bible portions: 1863–1866.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Italy
Other Comments: Influenced by Ligurian , and Pisan (Pisa, northwest coast of Italy). They call Campidanese , and Logudorese , Sard, and the people Sards, but do not include themselves or their language in those terms.