How does the ligurian language sounds to you?

[Peyrol]

I like it, it sounds closer to occitan compared to the other gallo-cisalpine languages in my opinion, it has something original and unique about it too. Yeah, something that makes it sound a little similiar to portoguese in intonation. I can't understand very much too.

Ligurian is probably the hardest of the gallo-italic languages...

[Empecinado]

A dialect of Ligurian called Tabarchino, spoken in some parts of Sardinia, was spoken too until late 19th century in the small island of Tabarca in Spain A song in Tabarchino from De Andre too:

[Peyrol]

Nobody know this fact, but ligurian is the official language of one european country...


....Monaco/Montecarlo, since moengasque is a ligurian dialect.

[Peyrol]

Written (and sung) monegasque ligurian

[AphroditeWorshiper]

sounds Occitan with strong Italian influence... or Italian with strong Occitan influence

very nice language btw! I'm very interested in Gallo Romance Languages

[LukeT]

By some linguists is NOT classified as Gallo Italic/Celtic Italic, indeed it's very different from Emilian-Lombard-Piedmontese-Rumagnol. This is the reason why southern piedmontese and ligurian sounds somewhat portuguese, on the contrary from Emilia-Lombard (and eastern piedmont) which have sounds that are almost indentical to french.

[LukeT]

for me sound like a north italian dialect but different to lombard or piemotese... a bit of centre italian influenze and francais and a little bit of portoguese accent... ahahahah ma è solo una mia impressione... credo sia proprio una lingua gallo-italica!!!

By some linguists Ligurian is NOT classified as Gallo Italic/Celtic Italic, indeed it's very different from Emilian-Lombard-Piedmontese-Rumagnol. This is the reason why southern piedmontese and ligurian sound somewhat portuguese, on the contrary from Emilia-Lombard (and eastern piedmont) which have sounds that are almost indentical to french, and they could actually be mistaken for french by someone who doesn't know the French language.