cosTechnical information about ISO 639 language code cos
The table below provides technical details for the Corsican language, designated by the cos code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Corsican Native Corsu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern CorsicanSouthern Corsican |
| Related languages | ItalianTuscanSardinianGallureseSicilian |
| Key facts | Romance language that diverged from medieval Tuscanroughly 80 % lexical mutual intelligibility with Standard Italianwritten with the Latin alphabet, featuring distinctive digraphs such as “ghj” and “sc”UNESCO lists it as “definitely endangered”traditional improvised duel-poetry called “chjama è rispondi” remains a vibrant part of oral culture. |
| Sample phrase | Bonghjornu, cumu stai? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Corsican language, identified by the code cos, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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