coTechnical information about ISO 639 language code co
The table below provides technical details for the Corsican language, designated by the co code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Corsican Native Corsu |
| Family | Romance |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern CorsicanSouthern Corsican |
| Related languages | ItalianTuscanGallureseSassareseSardinian |
| Key facts | Shares about 80 % lexical similarity with Standard Italian, aiding mutual intelligibilityEvolved mainly from medieval Tuscan introduced by settlers during the Middle AgesClassified by UNESCO as a definitely endangered languageFamous for the traditional polyphonic singing style known as «paghjella»Employs a phonemic spelling system with distinctive digraphs such as «ghj» and «chj». |
| Sample phrase | Bonghjornu, cumu stai? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Corsican belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Romance subgroup. It is recognized as a minority language in Corsica, France. It is written using the Latin script (Corsican alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 150,000 speakers worldwide.
Speakers
75K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Corsican speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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