Language code: cos

Technical 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

cos

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

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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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