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Alizée. Alizée (born 1984), singer; Patrick Fiori (born 1969), singer; Michel Giacometti (1929-1990), ethnomusicologist who worked primarily in Portugal; Jenifer (born 1982), French singer of Corsican ancestry
The Corsicans (Corsican, Italian: Corsi; French: Corses) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group, [11] native to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a territorial collectivity of France. [ 12 ] Origin and history
The ancient Sardinian and Corsican tribes are the ancestors of most present-day native Sardinians [5] and Corsicans, and their language or languages, like Paleo-Sardinian and Paleo-Corsican, are the substrate of the modern Sardinian and Corsican languages, now part of the Neo-Latin branch.
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The "Porta dei Genovesi" in Bonifacio, a city where some inhabitants still speak a Genoese dialect. The Corsican revolutionary Pasquale Paoli was called "the precursor of Italian irredentism" by Niccolò Tommaseo because he was the first to promote the Italian language and socio-culture (the main characteristics of Italian irredentism) in his island; Paoli wanted the Italian language to be the ...
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The Corsicans tended to settle the mountainous southwestern region of the island, primarily in the towns of Adjuntas, Lares, Utuado, Ponce, Coamo, Yauco, Guayanilla, and Guánica. Yauco , with a rich agricultural area, attracted the majority of the Corsican settlers. [ 18 ]
The Sardinians, however, call them by the name of Corsicans, which they brought with them from home [...] When the Carthaginians were at the height of their sea power, they overcame all in Sardinia except the Ilians and Corsicans, who were kept from slavery by the strength of the mountains.