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2 days ago · Non-native speaker of the Nuorese dialect of Siniscola. Sardinian or Sard ( endonym: sardu, Sardinian: [ˈsaɾdu], limba sarda, Sardinian: [ˈlimba ˈzaɾda], or lìngua sarda, Sardinian: [ˈliŋɡwa ˈzaɾda]) is a Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia . Many Romance linguists consider it ...
May 13, 2024 · In terms of phonology, Sardinian clearly is the closest (Romanian and Modern Italian are nearly identical in this regard). In terms of grammar, Romanian is obviously the closest (All the other Romance languages are virtually the same here).
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1 day ago · The term Romance derives from the Vulgar Latin adverb romanice, "in Roman", derived from romanicus: for instance, in the expression romanice loqui, "to speak in Roman" (that is, the Latin vernacular), contrasted with latine loqui, "to speak in Latin" (Medieval Latin, the conservative version of the language used in writing and formal contexts ...
May 14, 2024 · The closeness of Sardinian to Vulgar Latin is evident in its array of archaic linguistic features. In earlier times Sardinian probably was spoken in Corsica, where Corsican (Corsu), a Tuscan dialect of Italian, is now used (although French has been Corsica’s official language for two centuries).
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21 hours ago · The expansion of the Roman Empire spread Latin throughout Europe, and, eventually, Vulgar Latin began to dialectize, based on the location of its various speakers. Vulgar Latin gradually evolved into a number of distinct Romance languages; a process well underway by the 9th century.
4 days ago · Latin language, Indo-European language in the Italic group and ancestral to the modern Romance languages. Originally spoken by small groups of people living along the lower Tiber River, Latin spread with the increase of Roman political power, first throughout Italy and then throughout most of western and southern Europe and the central and ...
4 days ago · Latin phonology is the system of sounds used in various kinds of Latin. This article largely deals with what features can be deduced for Classical Latin as it was spoken by the educated from the late Roman Republic to the early Empire. Evidence comes in the form of comments from Roman grammarians, common spelling mistakes, transcriptions into ...
