.Sauris (Zahre in the local German language) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 120 km northwest of Trieste and about 60 km northwest of Udine. It is located in Val Lumiei, Carnia.Since its foundation in the mid-13th century, Sauris has been a German language island inside Friuli and has been able to preserve that status until the present day because of its isolated location. The local dialect, Saurano, preserves archaic features of the Tyrolean dialect to which it is related. However, the population is in large part trilingual, also able to speak Italian and Friulian.
