How does the ligurian language sounds to you?

**rashka** · 10-27-2012, 03:33 AM

Originally Posted by MM81

It sounds familiar to me since my grannies ALWAYS spoke ligurian :-) Our intonation is indeed very similar to the portuguese. I don't know why, it's just a case, probably... Anyway, I read a theory about the ancient ligurians coming from the iberian peninsula, and I usually find spaniards, especially basques, very similar to my people in physical appearance.
P.S. Piero Parodi lives in my neighbourhood...

I never heard of Ligurian language but as I was listening to the videos I get a feeling that it sounded something in between Italian and Portuguese. Now I read that you think it sounds similar to Portuguese too.

Peyrol · 10-27-2012, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by Meerkat.86

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

[YOUTUBE]jznI_i8mjss[/YOUTUBE]

There is also the piemonteis version with the same meoldy.

Talk about marriage.

[YOUTUBE]T37IrOys_HQ[/YOUTUBE]

**askra** · 10-27-2012, 11:39 PM

I can't associate ligurian with other languages that i know, neither the sassarese, that is partially influenced by ligurian, as cited by meerkat in the previous page, though i can understand roughly the meaning of the songs.

**Incal** · 10-28-2012, 01:01 AM

Sounds like if a person who originally spoke spanish were now getting into Italian.

**MM81** · 10-28-2012, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by Incal

Sounds like if a person who originally spoke spanish were now getting into Italian.

Ah ah great comment

I think the most intense song in ligurian is the one at the link below. It was written by great songwriter Fabrizio De Andrè - who used genoese/ligurian quite often in his songs - in the early 80's. It's called Scidun (Sidone) and it's about the Lebanon war.
[YOUTUBE]SlwCeisHWUc[/YOUTUBE]

Peyrol · 10-28-2012, 08:23 PM

^

Questa è un capolavoro!!!

Grande Faber

**Damião de Góis** · 10-28-2012, 08:45 PM

Sounds like italian, but with different words.

**MM81** · 10-30-2012, 04:05 PM

Some spoken ligurian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ_GVhC-9Hc

**MelinusMargos** · 05-17-2013, 01:05 PM

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.