What The Sardinian Language Makes Us Say and Do in a Daily Dose of Peace
A Daily Dose of Peace. Each week, I focus on Love, Joy, and Peace in the world languages. March focuses on Italy in Europe.
I Have to Write in Sardinian
In Sardinian the future
a compound of the radical verb
and the auxiliary “to have”
“hap a scriri” literally
“I have to write,”
a compound analogous to the Romance formation
this future tense abolished
in Italian, Spanish, and French
where the futures of speech
originally parlar ho, hablar he, parler ai,
have become parlero’, hablare’, parlerai,
“I will speak”
The “c” constantly changed
into g and gh
as in “vigesimus, paghe, pighe, lughe, deghe”
for “vicesimus, pace, pice, luce, decern”
some twenty years (in the future),
the peace, the pitch, the light, of ten
Though the reverse is also used
as in “macistratus, pucnas”
for the Latin “magistratus, pugnas”
“officials, combats”
While the conversion of t into d
as in “amade, muda, veridade”
for the Latin “amata, muta, veritate”
“loving, dumb, truth”
similar to the Spanish
the v into b and d
as in “bidda” for villa
all actors forced to act
in the future where
“I have to write”
Originally Published in Finding Peace in Italy, a Travel and Meditation Journal on March 2, 2021.
