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Sardinian language

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Sardinian language

Romance language spoken in Sardinia, the most similar to Vulgar Latin of the modern Romance languages. Its only standard form is the sardo illustre, a literary language used mostly for folk verse. Italian is the island's official language, and few literary works exist in Sardinian. The earliest written materials date from c. 1080.



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It also has the first known documents that were written in the native Sardinian language.
One word with a long history in the Sardinian language is panas (or pantamas), which refers to the spirits of women who have died in childbirth and who wash their baby's clothes in streams at night, beating them with a human shinbone.
 
 
 
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