Spanish was replaced as the official language, even though Italian struggled to take roots for a long time: Milà i Fontanals wrote in 1863 that Catalan had been used in notarial instruments from Sardinia well into the 1780s, together with Sardinian, while parish registers and official deeds continued to be drawn up in Spanish until 1828. The most immediate effect of the order was thus the further marginalization of the Sardinians' native idiom, making way for a thorough Italianisation of the island. For the first time, in fact, even the wealthy and most powerful families of rural Sardinia, the , started to perceive Sardinian as a handicap. Girolamo Sotgiu asserts on the matter that "the Sardinian ruling class, just as it had become Hispanicized, now became Italianised, without ever managing to become Sardinian, that is to say, to draw from the experience and culture of their people, from which it came, those elements of concreteness without which a culture and a ruling class always seem foreign even in their homeland. This was the objective that the Savoyard government had set itself and which, to a good measure, it managed to pursue".
Spanish was replaced as the official language even though Italian struggled to take roots for a long time Milà i Fontanals wrote in 1863 that Catalan had been used in notarial instruments from Sardinia well into the 1780s together with Sardinian while parish registers and official deeds continued to be drawn up in Spanish until 1828 The most immediate effect of the order was thus the further marginalization of the Sardinians' native idiom making way for a thorough Italianisation of the island For the first time in fact even the wealthy and most powerful families of rural Sardinia the  started to perceive Sardinian as a handicap Girolamo Sotgiu asserts on the matter that "the Sardinian ruling class just as it had become Hispanicized now became Italianised without ever managing to become Sardinian that is to say to draw from the experience and culture of their people from which it came those elements of concreteness without which a culture and a ruling class always seem foreign even in their homeland This was the objective that the Savoyard government had set itself and which to a good measure it managed to pursue"