Sardinian language

Sardinian
Sardinian
Sardu
Native to	Italy
Region	Sardinia
Ethnicity	Sardinians
Native speakers	(~1 million cited 1993-2007)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Sardinian; ; ;
Official status
Official language in	Sardinia
Regulated by	Limba Sarda Comuna
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sc
ISO 639-2	srd
ISO 639-3	srd
Linguasphere	51-AAA-s +(Corso-Sardinian) 51-AAA-pd & -pe
	Languages and dialects of Sardinia. Sardinian is spoken in all the orange-coloured areas.

Sardinian (Sardu, Limba or Lingua sarda) is a Romance language. It is native to the island of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island and autonomous region of Italy. About 1.2 million people speak Sardinian. The main dialects are Campidanese (Campidanian), Gallurese (Gallurian), Logudorese (Logudorian), and Sassarese (Sassarian). The standard version of the language is called Limba Sarda Comuna.

Sardinian is often seen as the closest language to Latin. It fought for decades to get basic recognition by the Italian government.

Sardinian Language Media

Non-native speaker of the Nuorese dialect of Siniscola.
Chart of Romance languages based on structural and comparative criteria (not on socio-functional ones).
Hunter, Nuragic bronze statuette
Location of the Sardinian tribes, as described by the Roman sources.
Length of the Roman rule and emergence of the Romance languages.
The condaghe of Saint Peter of Silki (1065–1180), written in Sardinian.
The first page of a copy of the Arborean Carta de Logu (University Public Library of Cagliari).
Sardinian-language statutes of Sassari from the 13th–14th centuries
Three gravestones dating to the second half of the 19th century in the historic cemetery of Ploaghe (Logudoro), wherein a total of 39 gravestones have writings in Sardinian and 3 in Italian.
The Kingdom of Sardinia in 1856.