Sassarese (natively sassaresu [sasːaˈrezu] or turritanu; tataresu [tataˈɾezu]) is an Italo-Dalmatian language and transitional variety between Sardinian and Corsican.Sassarese emerged as an urban lingua franca in the late part of the age of the Judicates (13th–14th century), based on a mixture of different languages – namely Sardinian, Corsican/Tuscan, and Ligurian.In 1943 the German linguist Max Leopold Wagner wrote: ... A vernacular which, by all indications, was gradually formed from the 16th century, after several very deadly plagues decimated the city's population; the bulk of the survivors were of Pisan and Corsican origin, there were even Genovese.Thus, this hybrid dialect was born, and is now spoken in Sassari, Porto Torres and Sorso, whose base is Tuscan-shifted with traces of Genovese, in addition to not a few Sardinian words.Ecco: io vi mando come pecore in mezzo a lupi; siate dunque prudenti come i serpenti e semplici come le colombe.
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Sassarese compared to Corsican dialects.