Paleo-Sardinian language  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nuragic civilization Extinct c. 2nd century AD Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis) Glottolog None Nuragic tribes  Paleo-
Sardinian (Paleosardinian) or Paleo-Sardo (Paleosardo), also
known as Nuragic, is the pre-Indo-European language (or perhaps
languages) of Sardinia and Corsica, which is thought to have
left traces in the modern Sardinian language. By the third
century, Latin had become the language of Sardinia, and the old
language(s) survive mainly in toponyms, which appear to preserve
grammatical suffixes, and in a few names of plants. There is
toponymic evidence suggesting that it may have had connection to
Basque or to the pre-Indo-European Iberian language of Spain
(Blasco Ferrer, 2010), or maybe to the ancient languages of
Sicily[citation needed].  Archeologist Giovanni Ugas suggested
that the three Nuragic peoples may have had separate origins and
thus spoke different langu