The original Sardinians, in fact, did not keep their ancient Nuraghic languages. The Romans had subjugated them long enough that by the time they escaped to the mountains they had adopted Latin, which has survived the centuries remarkably intact. In the Sardinian dialect spoken in the Blue Zone, for example, the word for house is still the Latin word domus. Their pronunciation more closely resembles Latin too. The English word sky is cielo in Italian but it is kelu in Sardinian, preserving the hard K sound as it was pronounced in the original Latin caelum (ka-AY-lum). The same goes for
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