Ligurian language (Romance)
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- Ligurian is also the name of an extinct language of Italy.
| Ligurian Liguru, Ligure |
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| Spoken in: | Italy, France and Monaco | |
| Region: | Liguria | |
| Total speakers: | n.a.% out of 1,920,848 | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Italic Ligurian |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Officially recognized in Italy (Law 482/1999) | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | roa | |
| ISO 639-3: | lij | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Ligurian is a Romance language, consisting of a group of Gallo-Italic dialects currently spoken in Liguria, northern Italy, and parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, and Monaco. Genoese (Zeneize or Zeneise) one of the most well-known dialects, spoken in Genoa, the principal city of Liguria. The language is dying out, being still widely spoken by the elderly only, out of a population of 1,920,848.
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[edit] Geographic extent
Besides Liguria, the language is also spoken in Northern Tuscany, Piedmont (part of the province of Alessandria), Emilia-Romagna (some areas in the province of Piacenza), the Alpes-Maritimes of France (with Nice), and in parts of Sardinia (Italy), Corsica (France), and the country of Monaco. It has been adopted formally in Monaco as the Monegasque language; or locally, Munegascu.
[edit] Linguistic structure
Ligurian exhibits distinct Italian features, while also having features of other Romance languages. No link between Romance Ligurian and the Ligurian language of the ancient Ligurian populations, in the form of a substrate or otherwise, can be demonstrated by linguistic evidence. There does exist, however, toponomastic derivations from ancient Ligurian.
[edit] Alphabet
The ligurian alphabet has:
- 6 vowels: a, e, i, o, u, y
- 18 consonants: b, c, ç, d, f, g, h, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, z.
[edit] Vocabulary
- u péi: pear (It. pera)
- u méi: apple (It. mela)
- u setrun: orange (cf. Fr. citron; replacing Gen. limon--cf. It. limone)
- u fîgu: fig (It. fico Fr. figue)
- u pèrsegu: peach (Fr. pêche)
- u rîbes: currant
- u franbuâse: raspberry (Fr. framboise)
- a sêsgia: cherry (it. ciliegia, Fr. cerise)
- u mêlu: strawberry
- a nûsge: hazelnut (Fr. noisette)
- l'arbicòca: apricot
- l'üüga: grape (uva)
- u pinjöö: pine nut (pignone)
- arvî: to open (aprire, Fr. ouvrir)
- serâ: to close (Sp. cerrar)
- u cèeu: light
- a cà: home, house (casa; Venitian ca)
- l'öövu: egg (uovo)
- l'ögiu: eye (occhio, Fr. l'œil)
- a buca: mouth (bocca)
- a tésta: head (testa)
- a schèn-a: back
- u cüü: derriere, buttock (Fr. cul)
- u brasu: arm (Fr. bras)
- a gamba: leg (It. gamba, Fr. jambe)
- u cöö: heart (Fr. cœur)
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