Indo-European family
Corsican
c. 1000 CE – today Living
Corsican (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Latin → Vulgar Latin → Corsican.
See Corsican on the interactive map- Speakers
- 150K (150,000)
- ISO 639-3
- cos
- Glottocode
- cors1241
Italo-Romance, heavily Tuscanised during Pisan and Genoese rule; closely related to Tuscan Italian.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
- Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
- Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
- Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
- Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
- Corsicanc. 1000 CE – today
Sister languages 20
Also descended from Vulgar Latin.