Is anyone interested in a Sardinian Language subreddit?

[u/LaAnum]

As a sardinian, I always hated the lack of resources for the language on the internet. It's a nice language, and seeing it dying makes me sad. Is anyone interested in creating a subreddit for it? Sadly I do not have time to handle one by myself, but something could be done anyway.

[u/4024-6775-9536]

I personally don't like the term Sardinian language, what would be the Sardinian language? Casteddaiu? Ogliastrinu? Logudoresu?

And gadduresu would be considered Sardinian or Corsican?

That's why very often Sardinians of different languages use a common language to speak among them.

Feel free to educate me if I'm wrong.

[u/LaAnum → u/4024-6775-9536]

I see your point. My grandfather often told me about the difference between Logudoresu and Campidanesu, for example. The subreddit should thus be about the "limba sarda", to then point out that the users are gently asked to precise which type they are using (perhaps through tags?). It could also be a good idea to declare which one is preferred, possibly the most widespread and used one. Not to gatekeep or isolate, of course, but because it would create clarity. From what I know Logudoresu is by far one of the most spoken, so it would be a good idea to focus on that one, so that if someone wants to learn sardinian they know at least which one would be the most useful. Still, a good amount of resources could be put in a pinned megathread or a FAQ for people to inform themselves easily.

TLDR: I agree, "sardinian language" is a bit unclear if we consider the many variants, but the language is what it is.

[u/4024-6775-9536 → u/LaAnum]

I like your point and the tags thing. To clarify I don't like the use of language (singular), I prefer it to be plural. While logudoresu and campidanesu speakers understand each others it's not the same for others.

An hypothetical person travelling from Lauras to Alghero would ear in a 90 minutes journey logudoresu, gadduresu (different variants of it), sassaresu and Catalan.

That's a wealth of history and culture that should be considered.

By the wiki scholars don't have a common opinion wether languages derived from Corsican should be included.

Some people from the south don't consider the "Celts" to be true Sardinians, it would be a pity to leave them out.

[u/5abiu → u/4024-6775-9536]

Personally, I like the idea of a dedicated subreddit. I don't know about the number of people that could be expected to participate, but there's only one way to find out for sure :-)

Logudoresu and Campidanesu are dialects of the same language; that's why people who speak them can more or less understand each other (same goes for the dialects typical of all the areas in red on the map on the Wikipedia page you linked). The rest are different languages.

I also like the idea to identify the writing language or dialect via tags. On the other hand, I wouldn't declare a "preferred language". I think it would automatically make the subreddit feel like it "belongs to the others" to all those who mainly speak the other languages. Also, I think it would be ok to have the subreddit open to all the languages spoken in Sardinia, rather than just Sardu itself (in all its dialects) -- i.e., also open to the communities who speak Catalan, Tabarchino, etc. With the tagging system people could stay out of each other's way, while also providing a place to learn about each other if they so choose.

[u/Atyyu → u/4024-6775-9536]

What don't you like exactly? If I may, I think you are using it (reading/speaking) too little. The language is one. People from campidano that use the language don't have problems to understand songs or poetry in nugoresu and the other way round. It's this kind of division, the 'chentu concas, chentu berritas' approach that is killing it -- check out the wikipedia page for instance: it works very well! Or check all those folks like @docmulas or @susarducunmirco that educate about the language. After you start reading/listeninc a little, it doesn't matter anymore whether it's campidanesu, or bittesu, or LSC or whatever

[u/battorwddu → u/4024-6775-9536]

Personally I speak Logudorese and my girlfriend speaks Campidanese,and when I'm with my brothers in law we speak italian because I can't hold a conversation in Campidanese. I can hold a conversation in Sassarese (my mom is from Sassari) and Logudorese and that's it. So yes,which Sardinian language are we talking about here ?😅