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Name: Corsican

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Corsu; Corso; Corse; Corsi

Spoken in: USA, Uruguay, Cuba, Venezuela, France, Canada, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Italy

Number of speakers: 341,000 in France (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 402,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 160000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 402000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: cos

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Language Subgroup: Corsican (cors)

Child Dialects: Vico-Ajaccio (cos-vic) Oltramontano Sartenese; Sartenais; Sartene; Suttanacciu (cos-sar) Transizione Cismontano/Oltramontano; Venaco (cos-ven) Northern Corsican; Cape Cors; Bastia; Supranacciu (cos-nor) Capraiese (cos-cap) Cismontano Capocorsino (cos-cca) Oltramontano (cos-olt)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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