CorsicanItalian
CorsicanItalian is a term used to describe the linguistic interplay between Corsican, a Romance language spoken on the island of Corsica, and Italian varieties, particularly Tuscan and Standard Italian. It denotes the historical and contemporary contact phenomena rather than a single standardized language, encompassing lexical borrowings, calques, and distribution of features across Corsican speech and writing that reflect Italian influence.
Corsican belongs to the Italo-Dalmatian branch of the Romance languages and is closely related to Italian.
The modern linguistic landscape of Corsica is shaped by French as the dominant official language and Corsican
Overall, CorsicanItalian reflects broader patterns of language contact in the western Mediterranean, illustrating how related Romance