Not much can be gathered from the classical literature about the origins of the Sardinian people. The ethnonym "S(a)rd" belongs to the Pre-Indo-European linguistic substratum, and whilst they might have derived from the

With a population density of 69/km , slightly more than a third of the national average, Sardinia is the fourth least populated region in Italy. The population distribution is anomalous compared to that of other Italian regions lying on the sea. In fact, contrary to the

Autosomal studies
Sardinians, while being part of the European gene pool, are well-known outliers in the European genetic landscape (together with the Basques, the Chuvash, the Sami, the Finns and the Icelanders ). Studies analyzing the DNA

• List of Sardinians
• Sardinia
• History of Sardinia
• Nuragic civilization

Prehistory
Sardinia was first colonized in a stable manner during the Upper Paleolithic and the Mesolithic by people from Continental Europe.

Languages
Italian (italiano) was first introduced to Sardinia by the House of Savoy in July 1760 and is the most commonly spoken language nowadays, albeit

• Sardinian traditional clothes and masks
• Children from Ovodda
• Urthos mask of Fonni