Corsican
peripheral Tuscan dialect group of Corsica and Sardinia
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Summary
Corsican is a natural language[1]. Corsican draws 7,243 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #88 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: France[3], Italy[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Tuscan[6]
- Writing system: Latin script[7]
- Part of: regional languages of France[8]
- Commons category: Corsican language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: co[10]
- Has part(s): Castellanese[11], Gallurese[12], Sassarese[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Corsican language[14]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 151,000[15]
- Native label: corsu[16]
- Different from: Cors[17]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[18]
- Indigenous to: Corsica[19], Sardinia[20]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/COS[21]
- Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational[22]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[23], syllabic language[24], fusional language[25]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Corsican-language films[26]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Corsican-language music[27]
Why It Matters
Corsican has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Corsican is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]