WIKITONGUES: Paulu speaking Corsican

This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. To download a copy, please contact hello@. This video was recorded by Paulu Ajaccio in Furiani, North Corsica, France. Corsican is spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica off the coast of France, where it is a statutory working provincial language mainly used in education. Corsican has five main varieties: Cismuntincu Nordicu, Cismuntincu, Pumontincu di transizione, Pumontincu and Taravesu/Sartinese. Corsican speakers are largely multilingual, with the last known monolingual speakers gone by the 1960s and only 10% speaking Corsican as their first language. Corsican was once the vernacular of the island (meaning in widespread use as a daily language) alongside Italian thanks to its status as language-of-state for the medieval states of Pisa and Genoa, but as French came to supersede Italian in the region, particularly in the 1900s, Corsican also gave way. Though the language was not