Editing Algherese dialect (section)

===Present status===
As a result of the city's extensive Italianisation, [[Italian language|Italian]] is now the predominant language in Alghero,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://prosodia.upf.edu/coalgueres/en/algueres.html|title=Corpus Oral de l'Alguerès|website=prosodia.upf.edu|access-date=9 March 2017}}</ref> being estimated by a 2004 survey to be first language of close to 60% of those surveyed.<ref>{{harvp|Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria de Política Lingüística|2004|p=24}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> The use of the dialect in schools and media, to name a few, remains sparse. Teaching of the dialect in school is also rare. However, in an attempt to reverse the trend, the Regional Council of Sardinia officially recognised "Algherese Catalan" as a separate language in 1997, in order to promote its use and circulation.<ref name=":1" /> According to the 2004 survey, Algherese was used by approximately 14% of the population for daily interactions.<ref>{{harvp|Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria de Política Lingüística|2004|p=25}}</ref> The dialect is mostly a local language, often used to supplement [[Italian language|Italian]] and/or [[Sardinian language|Sardinian]] in relatively small circles.<ref>{{harvp|Argenter|2008}}</ref>

The following figures were obtained from the ''Enquesta d'usos lingüístics a l'Alguer'' ("Survey of linguistic usage in Alghero", EULAL) of 2004<ref>{{Cite report |url=http://llengua.gencat.cat/web/.content/documents/dadesestudis/altres/arxius/eula2004.pdf |title=Enquesta d'usos lingüístics a l'Alguer |last=Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria de Política Lingüística |date=2004 |publisher=Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria de Política Lingüística |language=ca |trans-title=Survey of linguistic usage in Alghero}}</ref> and the ''Els usos lingüístics a l'Alguer'' of 2015 (EULA 2015),<ref>{{cite report |date=2017 |title=Els usos lingüístics a l'Alguer, 2015 |trans-title=Linguistic usage in Alghero, 2015 |language=ca |url=http://llengua.gencat.cat/web/.content/documents/publicacions/btpl/arxius/20_Usos_linguistics_Alguer_2015.pdf |publisher=Generalitat de Catalunya }}</ref> both of which were studies conducted in the town of Alghero about the general use of Algherese in several media.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Language status
!
!2004
!2015
|-
|Oral Comprehension
|90.1% (Sardinian oral comprehension: 69.7%)
|88.2%
|-
|Oral Expression
|61.3% (Sardinian oral expression: 33.9%)
|50.5%
|-
|Written Comprehension
|46.6% (Sardinian written comprehension: 35.4%)
|35.6%
|-
|Written Expression
|13.6% (Sardinian written expression: 15.4%)
|8.1%
|-
|First Language
|22.4% (59.2% Italian)
|17.5%
|-
|Habitual Language
|13.9%
|9.1%
|}