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here is some examples of spoken Corsican language, Corsican language is closely related to ancient Tuscan dialect, specifically related to the dialects of Garfagnana, in the north of Tuscany, while Italian comes from the dialect of Florence, for this reason Corsican and Italian are very similar
an old interview from 1977 about tourism in Corsica, the journalist speaks Corsican with heavy French accent, while the other man has no French accent, his accent his very similar to that of Sassari, a city of north west Sardinia, where it's spoken a language related to ancient Tuscan.
this video is about a tale in Corsican language, the man who speaks has zero French accent, it's quite easy to understand for a person who knows Italian
a lot of expressions in the video are also identical to Sardinian language :
tandu (Corsican) tando (Sardinian) allora (Italiano) then (English)
eranu famiti (Corsican) fin famidos (Sardinian) erano affamati (Italian) they were hungry (English)
strintu (Corsican) astrintu (Sardinian) stretto (Italian) adstrinctus (Latin) narrow, strict (English) the man in the video uses the word like a synonyme of "mean" like in Sardinian
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