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Language code: co

Technical information about ISO 639 language code co

Documentation

The table below provides technical details for the Corsican language, designated by the co code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

co

Standard

ISO 639-1

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

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

France

75K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Corsican speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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