Paleo-Corsican language

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

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.^[3]

Paleo-Corsican
Region	Corsica
Ethnicity	Ancient Corsi
Extinct	Yes, date uncertain
Language family	Ligurian?[1][2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Area of Tyrsenian languages (Rhaetian, Etruscan, Lemnian), Paleo-Corsican and Paleo-Sardinian languages.

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

Nuragic populations, ancient tribes of Sardinia, speakers of Paleo-Corsican language or languages are shown in blue.

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.^[4]

See also

• Paleo-Sardinian language
• List of ancient Corsican and Sardinian tribes