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Corsican language, an Uncommon card
Corsican is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group, spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a territory of France, and in the northern part of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Its northern varieties result from an intense medieval Tuscanisation and are closely related to, and largely mutually intelligible with, Standard Italian, whereas its southern varieties preserve features of an older stratum shared with Sardinian and show affinities with the Extreme Southern Italian dialects.
- On the sociolinguistic level, since the 1970s Corsican has increasingly been treated as an autonomous language in its own right rather than an Italian dialect, a status captured by the notion of polynomic language developed by Jean-Baptiste Marcellesi.
- Under the long-standing influence of Tuscany's Pisa, and the historic Republic of Genoa, over Corsica, the Corsican language once filled the role of a vernacular, with Italian functioning as the island's official language until France acquired the island from the Republic of Genoa, by 1859, French had replaced Italian as Corsica's first language so much so that, by the time of the Liberation of…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Corsican language article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Corsican language
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Corsican language (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Fobos92, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

