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Sassarese (local name Sassaresu or Turritanu) is an Italo-Dalmatian language and transitional between Corsican and Sardinian.
It is regarded as a Corsican–Sardinian language because of Sassari's historic ties (and neighborhood) with Tuscany and Corsica.
Despite the heavy Sardinian influences (especially in the vocabulary and phonetics), it still keeps its Tuscan roots, which
closely relate it to Gallurese. The latter is regarded as a Corsican dialect despite the geographic location, although this
attribution is a matter of controversy. It can be considered a transitional language between Italo-Dalmatian languages and
Sardinian. It has several similarities to Italian and in particular the old dialects of Italian from Tuscany. It is spoken
by approximately 120,000 people (in a total population of 175,000 inhabitants) in the northwest coastal areas of Sardinia,
Italy: large Sassarese-speaking communities are present in Sassari, Stintino, Sorso and Porto Torres; its transition varieties
towards Gallurese, known as the Castellanesi dialects, can be heard in Castelsardo, Tergu and Sedini. Sassarese emerged as
an urban language of commerce in the age of Giudicati (13th-14th century); it is based on a mixture of different languages,
namely Corsican, Tuscan dialect and Ligurian; a strong Logudorese influence can be felt in its phonetics, syntax, and vocabulary,
a minor influence in vocabulary was exercised by Catalan and Spanish. There exist many modern and older works both on and
in Sassarese, and a number of cultural, social and theatre events are regularly held in connection with it. In 1943 the German
linguist Max Leopold Wagner wrote: ... A dialect of the people which, by all indications, was formed gradually from the 16th
century, after several very deadly plagues decimated the population of the city; the bulk of the survivors were of Pisan and
Corsican origin, there were even Genovese. Thus was born this hybrid dialect which is now spoken in Sassari, Porto Torres
and Sorso, whose base is Tuscan corrupted with traces of Genovese, in addition to not a few Sardinian words. —Max Leopold
Wagner, The problem of the geographical region to be attributed to Gallurese and Sassarese in Neolatin Culture 3 (1943), pages
243-267 ... un dialetto plebeo che, secondo tutti gli indizi, si stava formando a poco a poco a partire dal sec. XVI, dopo
che varie pestilenze mortalissime avevano decimato la popolazione della città; dei superstiti la massima parte era di origine
pisana e còrsa, e non mancavano neanche i genovesi. Così nacque quel dialetto ibrido che oggi si parla a Sassari, a Porto
Torres ed a Sorso, la cui base è un toscano corrotto con qualche traccia genovese, e con non pochi vocaboli sardi. —Max Leopold
Wagner, La questione del posto da assegnare al gallurese e al sassarese in Cultura Neolatina 3, 1943, pp. 243-267 |
Names (more)[an] Idioma sasarés[br] Sasareseg [ca] Sasserès [co] Sassaresu [en] Sardinian, Sassarese [eu] Sassariera [fa] زبان ساساری [fr] Sassarais [gv] Sassarish [he] סאסארזה [it] Lingua sassarese [mk] Сасарески јазик [pl] Dialekt sassarski [se] Sassarigiella [es] Idioma sassarés [sc] Tàtaresu |
Language type : Living
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