How does the ligurian language sounds to you?

[Peyrol]

Yes, in La Spezia and sorroundings the accents are different, because they're very influenced by emilian and tuscan dialects. I spent my holydays in Framura once, they speak a quite standard ligurian/genoese, I didn't notice the agua/egua stuff (it means water in ligurian... in both cases ).
About Riomaggiore and the 5 Terre, they're on the borders between genoese and La Spezia's intonations, but they usually feel more linked to Genoa than to La Spezia, historically and culturally.

Don't tell this to a manarolese...they're only "de Manaea", nothing more...same for Rio...they're "De Rimasù"

[MM81]

Warning: stuff for real nerds at the link below

http://www.zeneize.net/index.html

It's the linguistic academy of the ligurian language.

[Peyrol]

Warning: stuff for real nerds at the link below

http://www.zeneize.net/index.html

It's the linguistic academy of the ligurian language.

Good.

This must be a compulsive reading (and study) for all the milanese tourists that every year go to Sestri Levante or Lavanga for holidays.

[Kazuma]

Ligurian sounds like portuguese, the one spoken in Brazil. So they say... In my opinion is very similar to extreme south piedmontese language (Ovada and around places).
My fiancee can understand the "genovese" for this reason, because her family come from a town close to the border between Liguria/Piedmont.

My family is from Basso Monferrato (central east Piedmont) and here the spoken language is very similar to the West Lombard (at least my father say so) but maintains some connections with the Ligurians language. I can't speak "genovese" except some words but it's not so difficult to understand if spoken slowly

[Kazuma]

I add about Ligurian - Piedmontese language conncetion that my surname is spread across Liguria, Piedmont and West Lombardy

[Peyrol]

I add about Ligurian - Piedmontese language conncetion that my surname is spread across Liguria, Piedmont and West Lombardy

Not for nothing..


http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oltregiogo

[MarceloBielsa]

Gallo Italic

[Vesuvian Sky]

I'd say overall, Ligurian sounds very much like Italian w/ just some slight western Romance pulls in terms of pronunciation. Some of these singers pronounce words similar to how the French do, and at other times, some of the pronunciation I swear almost has similarity to Portuguese.

[Peyrol]

I'd say overall, Ligurian sounds very much like Italian w/ just some slight western Romance pulls in terms of pronunciation. Some of these singers pronounce words similar to how the French do, and at other times, some of the pronunciation I swear almost has similarity to Portuguese.

Not a casuality

[Meerkat.86]

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OMG I know a song with the same music, but it's in sassarese dialect (spoken in the north west of Sardinia), and they both seem to be vulgar enough. ahahah

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