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Extinct language of Corsica This article is about the ancient language of Corsica. For the modern Romance language, see Corsican language.

Paleo-Corsican
Region	Corsica
Ethnicity	Ancient Corsi
Extinct	Yes, date uncertain
Language family	Ligurian?
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	None

Ancient tribes of Corsica, speakers of Paleo-Corsican language or languages.

The Paleo-Corsican language is an extinct language (or perhaps set of languages) spoken in Corsica and presumably in the northeastern part of Sardinia (corresponding to today's historical region of Gallura) by the ancient Corsi populations during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The scanty evidence of the language, which comes mainly from toponymy, would indicate a type of Pre-Indo-European language or, according to others, Indo-European, with Ligurian and Iberian affinity.

Antoine Peretti, claiming the presence of different linguistic areas, ranks as Ligurian some suffixes appearing in Corsican place names, like -asco, -elo/-ello, -ate/-ati and -inco.

References

Mastino, Attilio (2006) Corsica e Sardegna in età antica Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine(in Italian)
Ugas 2005, p. 13-19.
Zucca 1996, p. 31.
Mastino, Attilio (2006). Corsica e Sardegna in età antica, UnissResearch Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine(in Italian)

Bibliography

Ugas, Giovanni (2005). L'alba dei nuraghi. Cagliari: Fabula Editore. ISBN 978-88-89661-00-0.
Zucca, Raimondo (1996). La Corsica romana. Oristano: S'Alvure. ISBN 9788873831266.

Language families of Eurasia

Indian Ocean rim

"Paleosiberian"	Ainu Nivkh Chukotko-Kamchatkan Yukaghir Yeniseian
Other North Asia	Uralic Turkic Rouran ? Eskaleut Xiongnu ?

Proposed groupings

Alarodian Altaic Borean Nostratic Dené–Caucasian Eurasiatic Dené–Yeniseian Dravido-Korean Elamo-Dravidian Ibero-Caucasian Indo-Hittite Indo-Pacific Indo-Semitic Indo-Uralic Karasuk Serbi–Mongolic Pontic Ural-Altaic Uralo-Siberian Uralic–Yukaghir Eskimo–Uralic Chukotko-Kamchatkan–Amuric
Arunachal	Greater Siangic Siangic Digaro Mijiic Miju Hrusish Kho-Bwa
East and Southeast Asia	Andamanese Austric Austro-Tai Austronesian–Ongan East Asian Sino-Austronesian

Substrata

Families in italics have no living members.
Families with more than 30 languages are in bold.

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