Language code: `sc`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sc

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

Code	`sc`
Name	Official Sardinian Native Sardu
Family	Romance
Text direction	Left-to-Right
Language varieties	LogudoreseCampidanese
Related languages	CorsicanItalianSicilian
Key facts	Often regarded as the most conservative Romance languageKeeps Latin hard c and g before e and i (e.g., kentu ‘hundred’)Treated by linguists as its own primary branch of RomanceWritten with Latin script using distinctive digraphs such as “gh”, “tz” and geminated consonantsFirst written records date to 11th-century legal charters called Condaghes
Sample phrase	Bonghjornu, comente ses?
Character encodings	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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Sardinian belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically within the Romance subgroup. It is spoken on the island of Sardinia, Italy, and is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are between 500,000 and 1 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Italy

500K

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

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