Corsican in a sentence

As the church was replacing Pisan prelates with Corsican ones there, the legal language shows a transition from entirely Latin through partially Latin and partially Corsican to entirely Corsican.

However, only 8 percent of the Corsicans know how to write correctly in Corsican, while about 60 percent of the population does not know how to write in Corsican.

While 90 percent of the population is in favor of a Corsican-French bilingualism, 3 percent would like to have Corsican as the only official language in the island, and 7 percent would prefer French in this role.

Macron’s government had the prospect of autonomy for Corsica in the run-up to France’s presidential election last year, hoping to calm days of violent protests sparked by the death in jail of Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna.

There are a load of Corsican Mafia at the bottom watching the whole thing with binoculars.

Papa Francescu, the pope’s name in Corsican, will address more than 400 participants at the Conference on Popular Religiosity in the Mediterranean, organized by the bishop of Ajaccio, Cardinal Francois-Xavier Bustillo.

The amendments came after Highland Council’s forestry team objected to the hideaway on the grounds that Corsican pine trees could be felled and works for a water supply would have an ‘adverse effect’ on existing trees.

I visit the little resort town of Porticcio, a 20-minute ferry ride away, to meet a cutler who has agreed to show me his workshop and explain the tradition of Corsican knives.

Corsican nationalists have been emboldened by a resounding win in December's elections.

Among the natives, though Corsican nationalism is strong, and feeling often runs high in favour of a union with Italy ; loyalty to France however, as evidenced by elections, remains stronger.

Anyway, the Tuscan city tried to take advantage of the favourable situation to conquer the Corsican city of Aleria and even lay siege to Genoa itself in 1243.

He did not share his father's views but held Pasquale Paoli in high esteem and was at heart a Corsican nationalist.

In former Yugoslavia, "Forum" publishing house translated Corsican in " Asterix in Corsica " into Montenegrin dialect of Serbo-Croatian (today called Montenegrin language ).

Koryakov (2001) ascribes Sardinian to the separated Island Romance branch of the Romance languages, along with old Corsican.

Logudorese is intelligible to those from the southern part of Sardinia, where Campidanese Sardinian is spoken, and but only partly intelligible to those from the extreme north of the island, where Corsican–Sardinian dialects are spoken.

On the other hand, the Corsican language is closely related to Italian.

Research into earlier evidence of Corsican is ongoing.

Some Corsican nationalists have used terrorist methods.

The patron gets a lobster, and you get a crayfish; he gets a Corsican mullet, and you get a sewer-fish.

The use of Corsican language over French language has been declining.