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Algherese (Standard Catalan: ''Alguerès'', ; Algherese: ''Alguerés'', ) is the variant of the Catalan language spoken in the city of Alghero (''L'Alguer'' in Catalan), in the northwest of Sardinia, Italy. Catalan-speaking colonists repopulated the town and expelled the in 1372, after several revolts.〔(L'Alguer and Alguerese Catalan - Oral Corpus of Alguerese )〕 Catalan was replaced as the official language by Spanish, then by Italian in the mid 18th century, but its use remained widespread until at least the 1960s. Today it has semi-official status alongside Italian.〔(Alghero official website )〕 According to recent linguistic research, 22.4% of the population in Alghero speak the language natively and above 90% have some knowledge of the language.〔(Linguistic data from Generalitat de Catalunya )〕 ==Differences from Standard Catalan== The Algherese variant is classified in the Eastern Catalan block, but it has many differences from Central Catalan. Some of the most obvious: ;Phonetics *Like in other languages of Sardinia and , and and may merge into mid vowels and , respectively. *Coalescing of unstressed vowels , and to (unlike the rest of Eastern Catalan that uses ). *Algherese preserves as a distinct phoneme from , like Balearic and most of Valencian. *Mutation of intervocalic or to ; e.g. 'Barceloneta' (little Barcelona): Eastern Standard , Algherese ; and ''vila'' ('town') and ''vida'' ('life') are homophones in Algherese . *Mutation of syllable final to lateral , and the possible resulting group + consonant is further simplified to ; e.g. ''forn'' ('furnace, oven'): Standard , Algherese . *Depalatalization of syllable final sonorants: lateral to , nasal to ; e.g. ''any'' ('year'): Standard , Algherese . *Unlike most Catalan dialects, is never velarized in Algherese; e.g. ''sol'' ('sun'): Standard , Algherese . ;Morphology *Simple past has been replaced by present perfect (present of ''haver'' "to have" + past participle), possibly due to Italian influence. *Imperfect past preserves etymological -v- in all the conjugations: 1st -''ava'', 2nd -''iva'', 3rd -''iva'' (unlike modern eastern and western standard Catalan which has 1st -''ava'', 2nd -''ia'', 3rd -''ia'') (a feature shared with Ribagorçan Catalan). *Large-scale lexical borrowing and calques from Sardinian, Spanish, and Italian. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Algherese dialect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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