Sardinian
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Sardinian is a Romance language native to the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea. It matters because it represents a distinct linguistic tradition with its own unique features among Romance languages, making it important for understanding linguistic diversity and the history of the Mediterranean region.
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Non-native speaker of the Nuorese dialect of Siniscola Sardinian or Sard is a Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Italian Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
The distinctive character of the Sardinian language among the Romance languages has long been known among linguists. Many Romance linguists consider it, together with Italian, as the language that is the closest to Latin among all of Latin's descendants. However, it has also incorporated elements of Pre-Latin (mostly Paleo-Sardinian and, to a much lesser degree, Punic) substratum, as well as a Byzantine Greek, Catalan, Spanish, French, and Italian superstratum. These elements originate in the political history of Sardinia, whose indigenous society experienced competition and, at times, conflict with a series of colonizing newcomers.