Language and Vernacular Writing in Medieval Sardinia
Maurizio Virdis
2021-01-01
Abstract
This article will discuss 1) the problem relating to the birth of writing in the Sardinian language in medieval Sardinia, and the eccentricity and exceptionality of this fact compared to the other regions of western Romania: exceptionality due to the particular historical conditions of early medieval Sardinia which gravitated more to the sphere Byzantine cultural political more than in the Western one; 2) the proposition of the Sardinian language, from its first appearance, as an 'official' language, and the development in it of a legal and administrative register from the pragmatic and everyday language; 3) the similarities and differences of the writing type, between Greek and (neo) Latin, observable in Sardinia as well as in other Italian regions that orbited in the Byzantine cultural sphere; 4) the tendency, although therefore not rigid, to form a linguistic standard for the use of writing, especially in the judicial papers, less evident and binding in other types of writing, such as that of the condaghes; 5) the specificity of the writing of the condaghes, which almost define them as a prelude to a literary writing, as they do not conform to a pragmatic and functional language and only one, but to present a capacity for elaboration, even narrative, that transcends the orality.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.