Indo-European · ISO 639-3 srd · sc
Sardinian Language Sardu
Sardinian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.3 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Sardinian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Sardinian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Sardinian
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Sardinian language
Sardinian (Sardu) is spoken by about 1.3 million people. It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Italic group within the Italic branch.
Where is Sardinian spoken?
Sardinian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Italy (1.0 million).
Sardinian is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sardinian is written in the Latin script.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Haitian and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 sc, ISO 639-3 srd.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.