Description:
Corsican is a Romance language spoken in Corsica, Italy, and in the Corsican diaspora. It is the only surviving member of the Gallo-Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. The Corsican language is spoken by about 100,000 people in Corsica, Italy, and the Corsican diaspora. The language has been in decline since the 1950s, when it was largely supplanted by Italian in education and administration. However, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Corsican, with the language achieving official status in 2009. The Corsican language is a member of the Romance language family, which includes languages like French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese. It is believed that the Corsican language descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, which in turn derived from the Proto-Indo-European language. The Corsican language has a number of variations, including Bonnanese, Sarthe-Corse, and Genoese.