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Encyclopedia > Ligurian language (Romance)
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

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. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred related languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many spoken in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia), the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), and Central Asia. ... The Romance languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, comprise all languages that descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. ... Italo-Western is the largest sub-group of Romance languages. ... Gallo-Romance languages Gallo-Italian languages Lombard Piedmontese Emilian-Romagnol Venetian Ligurian Gallo-Rhaetian languages Oïl languages(including French) Burgundian Champenois Franc-Comtois French Gallo Lorrain Norman Anglo-Norman Channel Island Norman Auregnais Dgèrnésiais Jèrriais Sercquiais Picard Poitevin-Saintongeais Walloon Rhaetian languages Friulian Ladin Romansh *Franco... The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages includes French, Oïl languages, Catalan, and Occitan, among other languages. ... Gallo-Italic is a language family within the Gallo-Romance languages. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — 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). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. ... Gallo-Italic is a language_family within the Gallo-Romance languages. ... 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. ...

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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. ... Piedmont (Italian: Piemonte) is a region of northwestern Italy. ... Alessandria (It. ... Provinces of Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. ... Piacenza (Italian: Provincia di Piacenza) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... Alpes_Maritimes is a département in the extreme southeast corner of France. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sardinia (Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna or Sardinna in the Sardinian language), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ... 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)

External link

Wikipedia
Ligurian language (Romance) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  Results from FactBites:
 
Ligurian language (Romance) (560 words)
Ligurian is also the name of an extinct language of Italy.
Ligurian is a Romance language, currently spoken in Liguria, northern Italy, and parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, and Monaco.
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 (in some villages near Nice), and in parts of Sardinia (Italy), Corsica (France), and the country of Monaco.
Romance languages: Information from Answers.com (6126 words)
All Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic) descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of soldiers, settlers and slaves of the Roman Empire, which was substantially different from the Classical Latin of the Roman literati.
Despite multiple influences from pre-Roman languages and from later invasions, the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of all Romance languages are predominantly derived from Vulgar Latin.
Diacritics common across Romance languages are the acute accent (á), the grave accent (à), the circumflex accent (â), the diaeresis mark (ü), the cedilla (ç), and the tilde (ã).
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