(documentation LigurianLanguage EnglishLanguage "The LigurianLanguage is a GalloItalianLanguage of Italy. SIL code: LIJ. ISO 639-2: roa. Population: 1,853,578 (1976). Population total all countries: 1,856,680 or more. Region: Liguria, northern Italy, east and west of Genoa long the Riviera and mountain hinterland, St. Pietro and St. Antioch, islands off southwest coast of Sardinia, cities of Carloforte and Calasetta in Sardinia. Alternate names: LIGURU, LIGURE. Dialects: GENOESE (GENOAN, GENOVESE). Comments: Very different from Standard Italian. Speakers may all be adequately bilingual in Standard Italian. Not endangered. Bible portions 1860. Also spoken in: France. (Language name: LIGURIAN. Alternate names: LIGURE. Dialects: GENOESE (GENOAN, GENOVESE). Comments: Bible portions 1860. Also spoken in: Monaco. (Language name: LIGURIAN. Population: 5,100 in Monaco, 17% of the population (1988). Alternate names: LIGURE. Dialects: GENOESE (GENOAN, GENOVESE), MONEGASQUE (MUNEGASC, VENTIMIGLIESE). Comments: Ligurian is closer to Piemontese, Lombard, and French than to Standard Italian. Monegasque was nearly extinct in the 1970s. Compulsory learning in schools has revived it. Bible portions 1860.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") |
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