Ligurian Liguru, Ligure | | 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 | | 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/FDIS 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. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...
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ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages â Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ...
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Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...
Genoese (Zeneize) is the variety of the ligurian language spoken in Genoa, the capital city of Liguria (Italy) . The Ligurian is listed by Ethnologue as a language in its own right (not to be confused with the ancient Ligurian language). ...
The Ancient Port of Genoa. ...
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. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...
A poppy field in Tuscany. ...
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Provinces of Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. ...
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Capital Ajaccio Land area¹ 8,680 km² President of the Executive Council Ange Santini (UMP) (since 2004) Population - Jan. ...
Monégasque (or Munegascu) is a Romance language based on Zeneize, the modern Ligurian language; it is spoken in Monaco and taught in schools there. ...
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 do exist, however, toponomastic derivations from ancient Ligurian.
Alphabet The ligurian alpahbet 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.
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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