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The fascinating Nuragic architecture. A glimpse into the first Sardinian civilization. SRD/ENG

Faci de su 1.600 ananti de Gesugristu, cumentzat a si formai in Sardìnnia sa curtura chi oi ddi naraus nuràgica, de su monumentu principali de custa curtura interessanti meda.

Around 1600 B.C., a culture starts developing in Sardinia and it is named after its most characteristic architectural feature, the "Nuraghe/Nuraxi". We're talking about the Nuragic civilization.

Su nuràgicu arcàicu si manifestat cun is proto-nuraxis, costrutzionis megalìticas de forma irregulari, cun aposentus a tholos e passaditzus.

The archaic nuragic culture was characterized by the "Proto-nuraxis", irregular buildings made out of megaliths that had both rooms and tight corridors.

Faci de su 1.200 a.C. est su Tempus de is nuraxis cràssigus. Sa turri nuràgica lòmpit insaras a sa perfetzioni formali. Una turri podiàt arribai a prus de 20 metrus de artària e tenni a intrus tres aposentus a tholos unu a pitzus de s’àteru, e una spirali de scalas intras de is murus.

Around 1.200 B.C, Nuragic architecture developes the "Classic Nuraghes" buildings. The Nuragic tower got the shape that can still be seen today. A tower could reach 20 meters of height and it could have up to three floors, where each one would correspond to a room and they were connected by a snail stairway built through the walls.

A pustis de custu perìodu s’assistit a sa ammanniadura de is nuraxis prus impostantis cun bastionis e turris formendi is nuraxis polilobaus, aundi a giru si formant biddas de barracas, cumenti in Barùmini o a su nuràxi Orrùbiu de Orroli.

From this period on, the already existing Nuraghes, especially the most strategic and important ones, were extended and encircled by bastions and perimeters' towers around which huts were build. Such examples can be seen in Barùmini complex or in the Nuraghe Orrùbiu in Orroli.

Thanks a lot for reading this summary about the Sardinian Nuragic architecture.

What do you think about such an architecture (help yourself googling it) and about the Sardinian language?

In case you were interested about Sardinian language and history, I would be honoured to guide you to this fascinating spoken and cultural heritage.

A si biri! See you soon!

6 Kasım 2018

Technical trial Technical test, I'm sorry, I'm just testing the discussion platform as I've been experiencing troubles posting.

6 Kasım 2018

How I got my language roots back! Would you ever consider learning a minority/regional language?

It was my third Berlin winter, and, at that time, I was working in the international department of a multinational company, regularly switching between five different languages during my shifts. I had recently become kind of fluent in my fifth language, Portuguese, a tongue that I learned in an easier and more relaxed way than the previous one, German.

The reason for such a fast Portuguese learning process was not only due to the fact of being fluent in Spanish and being an Italian native speaker, but there had also been another mysterious language that helped me out a lot in getting fluent in Portuguese. In fact, to be precise, the languages I could speak at that time were five and a half, as I grew up half bilingual. What do I mean by that? Well, I'm from Sardinia and apart from the official Italian language, the autochthonous Sardinian language has been spoken for a millennium and, besides that, there are also other four historic language minorities that have been spoken for centuries in the island. Unfortunately, most Sardinian families have stopped handing their local language over for the last five decades and the language is not a regular subject in the island’s schools yet.

It was just in one of those grey and cold winter days that I took the decision to take up studying Sardinian in order to turn my decent passive knowledge into an advanced active one and, in this way, getting my language roots back while giving my contribution to the valorization and promotion of such a wonderful, various and fascinating tongue that unfortunately finds itself on the brink of extinction due to decades of ruthless discrimination and disastrous linguistic politics by both the central and regional government.

However, I will soon write back about the Sardinian Language and about this incredible and enlightening language experience that now allows me to have the opportunity to teach my Island’s spoken soul to the world through Italki and through all the other languages that I’m lucky to be fluent in.

In the meanwhile, I would like to ask you for a couple of questions:

Have you also grown up in a region where the autochthonous language suffers from discrimination and it faces extinction? What are your thoughts and feelings about that?

Would you consider learning your regional language or another endangered minority language to give your contribution in helping to preserve the world’s immense language heritage?

According to my own humble but intense experience, learning your or other’s minority languages would really benefit both your mind and soul.

Gràtzias meda, a si biri!

Thanks a lot, see you soon!

3 Kasım 2018