Editing Corsican language (section)

== Origins ==
{{See also|Paleo-Corsican language|Tuscan dialect}}
The common relationship between Corsica and [[central Italy]] can be traced from as far back as the [[Etruscans]], who asserted their presence on the island in as early as 500 BC.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jehasse |first=Olivier |chapter=Corsica |title=Etruscology |editor-first=Alessandro |editor-last=Naso |date=2017 |pages=1641–1652 |isbn=978-1-934078-48-8 |doi=10.1515/9781934078495-083}}</ref> In 40 AD, the natives of Corsica reportedly did not speak Latin. The Roman exile, [[Seneca the Younger]], reported that both coast and interior were occupied by natives [[Paleo-Corsican language|whose language]] he was not able to understand. More specifically, Seneca claimed that the island's population was the result of the stratification of different ethnic groups, such as the [[Greek people|Greeks]], the [[Ligures]] (see [[Prehistory of Corsica#Ligurian hypothesis|the Ligurian hypothesis]]) and the Iberians, whose language had long since stopped being recognizable among the population due to the intermixing of the other two groups.<ref>{{cite web |quote=Haec ipsa insula saepe iam cultores mutauit. Vt antiquiora, quae uetustas obduxit, transeam, Phocide relicta Graii qui nunc Massiliam incolunt prius in hac insula consederunt [...] Transierunt deinde Ligures in eam, transierunt et Hispani, quod ex similitudine ritus apparet; eadem enim tegmenta capitum idemque genus calciamenti quod Cantabris est, et uerba quaedam; nam totus sermo conuersatione Graecorum Ligurumque a patrio desciuit. |url=https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.consolatione3.shtml |title=Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione |author=Seneca |language=la |via=The Latin Library}}, VII</ref> The occupation of the island by the [[Vandals]] around the year 469 marked the end of authoritative influence by Latin speakers. (See [[Medieval Corsica]].) If the natives of that time spoke [[Latin]], they must have acquired it during the late empire.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

Modern Corsican has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs; earlier by those of the medieval Italian powers, such as the [[Papal States]] (828–1077), the [[Republic of Pisa]] (1077–1282) and the [[Republic of Genoa]] (1282–1768), and finally by France which, since 1859, has promulgated the official Parisian French. The term "[[Francization|gallicised]] Corsican" refers to the evolution of Corsican starting from about the year 1950, whereas "distanciated Corsican" refers to an idealized variety of Corsican following [[linguistic purism]], by means of removing any French-derived elements.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Corsican distanciation strategies: Language purification or misguided attempts to reverse the gallicisation process?|first=Robert J.|last=Blackwood|journal=Multilingua – Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication|volume=23|issue=3|pages=233–255|date=August 2004|doi=10.1515/mult.2004.011}}</ref>