Romance language Sardinian

Sardinian is a 'Romance' or 'Neolatine' language, that is, a linguistic domain that derives from the language spoken by the ancient Romans. In the same way, there are Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, French-Provençal, French, Italian, Ladin, Friulian, Corsican, Dalmatian (now extinct) and Romanian.
As Giovanni Lupinu writes in his 'History of the Sardinian language', 'adopting a frequent metaphor in glottological studies inspired by human kinship, these can be defined as 'sister languages' as they can be traced back to a common 'mother tongue'.
In broader terms, this essentially means that in the long process of formation of the island language, which lasts to the present day, the Roman conquest of the island in 238 BC and the consequent massive spread of Latin in the territory that spoke Paleosardo and Punic certainly represent the central and most important episode, destined to draw in depth the skeleton of the language that will begin to appear documentarily after 1000 AD.”
According to Max Leopold Wagner, the conservativity of the Sardinian language with respect to Latin is an acquired fact: “Sardinian, as it appears in ancient documents and as it still sounds in the central regions and especially in the Bittese and Nuoro areas, can be considered, even phonetically, the most frank continuator of Latin.”
A definition that has made the Sardinian language a fortune among all scholars and philology enthusiasts.

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15/7/2025 - 13:08