Logudorese dialect

Logudorese Sardinian
Sardu Logudoresu, Logudoresu
Native to	Italy
Region	Sardinia
Native speakers	500,000 (1993)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Sardinian Logudorese Sardinian
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	logu1236
Linguasphere	51-AAA-sa
Languages and dialects of Sardinia
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Logudorese Sardinian (Sardinian: Sardu Logudoresu, Italian: Sardo Logudorese) is a standardised variety of Sardinian, often considered the most conservative of all Romance languages. Its ISO 639-3 code is src. Italian-speakers do not understand Sardinian, which is a separate language.

Latin G and K before /i, e/ are not palatalized in it, in stark contrast with all other Romance languages. Compare Logudorese with Italian /ˈtʃɛnto/, Spanish /ˈθjento/, /ˈsjento/ and French /sɑ̃/.

Logudorese is intelligible to those from the southern part of Sardinia, where Campidanese Sardinian is spoken, but it is not to those from the extreme north of the island, where Corsican–Sardinian dialects are spoken.

The area of Logudoro (term originated as a blend of the kingdom's name of Logu de Torres) in which it is spoken, a northern subregion of the island of Sardinia with close ties to Ozieri (Othieri) and Nuoro (Nùgoro) for culture and language, as well as history, with important particularities in the western area, where the most important town is Ittiri. It is an area of roughly 150 × 100 km with some 500,000–700,000 inhabitants.