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http://www.accademiacorsa.org/linguacorsa.html
http://www.uribombuinternaziunale.com/pulitica.htm
http://www.linguacorsa.net
Hello Pluiepoco
The "frenglais" is a joke language, and doesn't really exist, but Miles Kingston, an English author has written several silly books in frenglais.
We speak it in my house because it's fun making up sentences when a wife is English and a husband is French. It's a sort of lazy famileal bilingualism.
Whilst the official language in Corsica is French, the Corsican language itself is Corsican
- A lingua nustrale hè u Corsu
It is not linguistically "corrupted" yet by the French input as French has only existed on the island since the French bought the country from the Genovese 250 years ago.
It is very close to Toscan Italien and is perfectly understood by Sardinians who have a vey similar spoken language.
Corsu is the same word whether speaking of the country, the language or its inhabitants.
Here are one or two proverbs:
First a superstition:
L'olio ghjittatu hé segnu di disgrazia
Ma u vinu ghjè alegria
Spilt oil is a bad omen
But spilt wine means joy to come
and now a proverb:
Pè dì "Mamma" s'impiccianu e labbre duie volte
To say "Mummy" you have to close your lips twice
(Each time you say "Mummy" your mouth does two kisses).
Unfortunately I speak very little Corsican.
A dopù
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