Southern Romance languages
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The Southern Romance languages are a primary branch of the Romance languages.
Southern Romance | |
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Native to | France, Italy |
Region | Corsica, Sardinia, Roman Africa (hypothesized) |
Official status | |
Official language in | Italy, France |
Recognised minority language in | France, Italy |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ā |
Glottolog | sout3158 |
Sardinia as part of the Southern Romance group in Europe |
According to the classification of linguists such as Leonard (1980) and Agard (1984), the Southern Romance family is composed of Sardinian, Corsican, and the southern Lucanian dialects.[1]
This theory is far from universally supported. In fact, the majority of linguists classify Corsican, including Gallurese and Sassarese as its dialects, as part of Italo-Dalmatian and closely related to Tuscan or the centro-southern Italian dialects,[2][3][4][5][6][7] because of the island's considerable degree of tuscanization during the Middle Ages, leaving Sardinian as the only remaining representative of the branch once the African Romance dialects had gone extinct,[8] unless the southern Lucanian dialects are also classified as part of this branch, as they show some important traits in common with Sardinian.