Corsicans

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The Corsicans are a Roman ethnic group in southern Europe. They live mainly on the island of Corsica, which politically belongs to France, in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea and are closely related to the Italians . All inhabitants of Corsica are also called Corsicans, regardless of which ethnic group they belong to. Well-known Corsicans were or are Pasquale Paoli , Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo , Alizée , Laetitia Casta and Joseph Fesch . The French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte was also a Corsican.

language

Main article: Corsican language

The Corsican is one of the Italo-Roman idioms and is closely related to the Italian (especially Tuscan) and nordsardinischen dialects related. There are around 100,000 speakers on the island who speak it at least as a second language.

The classification as an independent Romance language prevailed with the publication of the scientific "Lexicon of Romance Linguistics (LRL)" (1988 ff.), Where it was included in a list of 14 Romance languages. This list also includes Italian and French - this must be mentioned to distinguish it from the two languages ​​that the Corsicans “constantly deal with”, which are often associated with them for important socio-historical reasons .