Campidanese Sardinian

Campidanese Sardinian
Sardu Campidanesu Campidanesu
Native to	Italy
Region	Sardinia
Native speakers	500,000 (2007)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Sardinian Campidanese Sardinian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Campidanese Sardinian
Glottolog	camp1261  Campidanese Sardinian
Linguasphere	51-AAA-sa
Languages and dialects of Sardinia
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Campidanese Sardinian (Sardinian: Sardu Campidanesu, Italian: Sardo Campidanese) is a standardised variety of the Sardinian language primarily spoken in the Province of Cagliari, Italy.

Traditionally the name Campidano refers to the fertile area located around the towns of Guspini and Villacidro. Campidanese and its variants of the dialect can be found across the entire Province of Cagliari and not just the Province of Medio Campidano area. Campidanese also extends into parts of the Province of Nuoro, notably the Ogliastra area and in the southern half of the Province of Oristano, the capital included. However, it is at this point that the language merges into Logudorese.

Campidanese Sardinian is intelligible to those from the central to southern part of Sardinia, where Logudorese Sardinian is spoken, but it is not to those from the extreme north of the island, where Corsican–Sardinian dialects are spoken. Italian speakers can hardly understand Campidanese, like any other dialect of the Sardinian language: Sardinian is an autonomous linguistic group rather than a dialect of Italian as it is often noted because of its morphological, synctatic, and lexical differences from Italian. In 2009, the provincial administration of Cagliari approved the spelling, phonetics, morphology, and vocabulary rules for Standard Campidanese Sardinian.

There are six main but mutually intelligible subdialects of Campidanese: Arborense, Cagliaritano (Casteddaiu), Meridionale, Ogliastrino, Guspinese and Villacidrese. Cagliaritano is the dialect of Campidanese spoken in the capital, Cagliari; however, it extends to most of the neighbouring towns and villages within a 15 km radius of Cagliari.