Alternate Names: Central Sardinian, Logudorese, Sard, Sardarese
Dialects: Barbaricino, Northern Logudorese, Nuorese, 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 , and Cagliare dialect of Sardinian, Campidanese ,, 70% with Gallurese ,. Sardinian has 85% lexical similarity with Italian, 80% with French ,, 78% with Portuguese ,, 76% with Spanish ,, 74% with Romanian , and Ladin ,. A member of macrolanguage Sardinian ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 500,000 (Salminen 1993).
Language Use: Many children learn the language but stop using it at school age (Salminen 2007). Positive attitudes. Prestige is equal to Italian [ita] in some contexts, including writing. Also use Italian [ita]. Used as L2 by Catalan [cat].
Language Development: Growing movement to recognize Sardinian as part of linguistic and cultural heritage. Bible portions: 1858–1861.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Italy
Other Comments: Christian.