Alguerese or Algherese is the variant of the Catalan language spoken in the city of Alghero, in the northwest of Sardinia. Catalan invaders repopulated the town after expelling the autochthonous Sardinian population in 1372, following several revolts. Catalan was replaced as the official language by Spanish in the 17th century, then by Italian. In the 1990s about 60% of locals still understood spoken Alguerese. Jump to: navigation, search Catalan (Català) or Valencian (Valencià) is a Romance language understood by as many as 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of active Catalan speakers are in Spain. ... Old city wall and new sea wall, Alghero Alghero (LAlguer in Catalan and SAlighera in Sardinian), is a town of about 35,000 inhabitants. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sardinia (Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardegna in Italian, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ... Events Births March 13 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of king Charles V of France Princess Beatrice of Portugal, heiress to the throne during the 1383-1385 Crisis Deaths Categories: 1372 ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ...

The Algherese dialect has many deviations from standard Catalan. Some of the most obvious:

• Coalescing of unstressed vowels /a, /ɛ/, and /e/ to [a] (unlike standard Catalan that has [ə]).
• Alguerese preserves /v/ as a distinct phoneme from /b/, like Balearic and most of Valencian.
• Mutation of intervocalic /d/ or /l/ to vibrant [r]; e.g. 'Barceloneta' (little Barcelona): standard [bərsəluˈnɛtə], Algherese [balsaruˈnɛta]; e.g. 'vila' (town) and 'vida' (life) are homophonous in Algherese ['vira].
• Mutation of syllable final /r/ to lateral [l], and the possible resulting group [l]+consonant is still simplified to [l]; e.g. 'forn' (furnace): standard [ˈforn], Algherese [ˈfol].
• Depalatalisation of syllable final sonants: lateral /ɬ/ to [l], nasal /ɲ/ to [n]; e.g 'any' (year): standard [ˈaɲ], Algherese [ˈan].
• Simple Past Perfect has been replaced by Present Perfect (present of HABERE + past participle), possibly an interference of Italian.
• Imperfect Past preserves etymological -V- in all the conjugations: 1st -ava, 2nd -iva, 3rd -iva (unlike modern standard Catalan with has 1st -ava, 2nd -ia, 3rd -ia) (a feature shared with Ribagorçan Catalan)
• Lots of lexical borrowings and syntactic calques from Sardinian, Spanish, and Italian.

Balearic is the Catalan variant spoken in the Balearic Islands (Spanish las Islas Baleares), Spain. ... There is consensus amongst linguists that Valencian is the name for the Catalan language which is spoken in the Valencian Country, Spain. ... Ribagorçan dialect is a variant of the Catalan language, which has some transitional traits to Aragonese: Palatalization of L in PL, CL, FL groups, e. ...

Bibliography

• Josep Sanna: Diccionari català de l'Alguer. 1988; ISBN 84-7129391-9 [1]