The typical local language, if we can talk about language, spoken in Santa Teresa di Gallura is Gallura.
We could not talk about language but mainly about idiom or dialect, derived mainly from the course, the dialect of the mountains of Corsica. Although dialect, there is no shortage of written texts, already in the Middle Ages with bas-reliefs and also in the eighteenth century with poetic compositions.
Although geographically Italian and Sardinian, Gallura is associated for linguistic properties, structural, spelling and grammar, to the course.
It is commonly spoken in Santa Teresa di Gallura as well as in other towns in the provinces of Sassari and Olbia-Tempio, mixing with the Logudorese and Sassari dialects. In total, it is estimated that Gallurse can be spoken by around 100 thousand people.
Common to all these dialects is the typical –u at the end of an unstressed word, i.e. unaccented, also present as an article ( u, lu).
In Maddalena, however, a derivation of Gallura is spoken, called Islander, which is even closer to the Corsican Romance language.
