Sardinian, Sassarese
Facts
- Language: Sardinian, Sassarese
- Alternate names: Northwestern Sardinian, Sassarese
- Language code: sdc
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Northwestern Shifted Romance, Gallo-Italian
- Number of speakers: 100000
- Vulnerability: risk [Read more...]
- Script: Latin
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Introduction
Sardinian Sassarese is a Romance language spoken and written on the island of Sardinia (Italy). Since 1997, the island's languages have been recognized and protected by regional and national laws.
Sassarese is influenced by modern Ligurian (not to be confused with the extinct Ligurian language) and Pisan dialect of Italian.
There are several written standards, most recently the Limba Sarda Comuna (Common Sardinian Language), have been created in an attempt to unify the different variants of Sardinian.
The verb
The Sardinian Sassarese' verb is conjugated in
- 4 moods: indicative, subjunctive, conditional, and imperative;
- 4 tenses: present, preterite, imperfect, and future;
- 2 numbers: singular and plural;
- 3 persons.
Conjugation of the Regular verb 'lauare'
Indicative Present | |
Sg.1 | labu |
Sg.2 | labi |
Sg.3 | laba |
Pl.1 | labɛmmu |
Pl.2 | labeddi |
Pl.3 | labani |
Verblist
- abalchunà
- abaunzà
- abbaggià
- abbaiddà
- abbalchunà
- abbà
- abé
- abé rasgioni
- abé raxoni
- ammintassi
- ammintà
- assevvi
- assé
- bì
- cantà
- ciamassi
- ciamà
- dubé
- dà
- dà rasgioni
- dì
- finì
- fà
- fà bè
- fà d'innommu
- fà di nommu
- giuggà
- grisgimà
- grisimà
- ivvruncià
- ivvrunzià
- labà
- mirà
- vulé
- vuré
- vuré bè