the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish of or relating to or characteristic of Sardinia or its people
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 1080