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Why is Sardinian called the closest language to Latin?

Sardinian (Sardu) preserves several conservative features that other Romance languages lost: hard /k/ before front vowels (kentu 'hundred' from Latin centum, not Italian cento /tʃ/), the Latin distinction between long and short vowels in some forms, and many Latin words unchanged or only lightly altered (domu 'house' from domus). Linguists often consider it the most archaic Romance language.

What are Sardinian's main dialects?

Sardinian splits broadly into Logudorese in the centre and north (closer to medieval Sardinian written norms) and Campidanese in the south (with stronger Catalan and Spanish influences from centuries of Aragonese rule). The unified Limba Sarda Comuna orthography was proposed in 2006 to bridge them, but most publications still use one dialectal norm. Italy recognises Sardinian as a regional language.