Although the Sardinian-speaking community can be said to share "a high level of linguistic awareness", policies eventually fostering language loss and assimilation have considerably affected Sardinian, whose actual speakers have become noticeably reduced in numbers over the last century. The Sardinian adult population today primarily uses Italian, and less than 15 percent of the younger generations were reported to have been passed down some residual Sardinian,La Nuova Sardegna, 04/11/10, Per salvare i segni dell'identità – di Paolo Coretti usually in a deteriorated form described by linguist Roberto Bolognesi as "an ungrammatical slang".
Although the Sardinian-speaking community can be said to share "a high level of linguistic awareness", policies eventually fostering language loss and assimilation have considerably affected Sardinian, whose actual speakers have become notice,ably reduced in numbers over the last century. The Sardinian adult population today primarily uses Itali?an, and less than 15 percent of the younger generations were reported to have been passed down some residual Sardinian,La Nuova Sardegna, 04/11/10, Per salvare i segni dell'identità – di Paolo Coretti usually in a deteriorated form described by linguist Roberto Bolognesi as "an ungrammatical slang".