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  1. She always closes the window before dinner. Elle ferme toujours la fenêtre avant de dîner. (Ella) siempre cierra la ventana antes de cenar. (Ela) fecha sempre a janela antes de jantar. (Ela) pecha sempre a xanela antes de cear. (Eilha) cerra siempre la bentana atrás de jantar.

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    The Ligurian language, like many minority languages, is an endangered language which is disappearing more and more in recent years and may be threatened with extinction. Only around 500,000 out of the 2,000,000 Ligurians, speak Ligurian, who are mostly older people. Because the Ligurian language is rarely passed on to the younger generations, fewer...

    Dialectsof the Ligurian language are: 1. Bonifacino (bunifazzin, in Bonifacio, Corsica, France) 2. Brigasc (brigašc, in La Brigue, Alpes-Maritimes, France and Briga Alta, Liguria, Italy) 3. †Figoun (in Provence, France) 4. Genoese (zeneize or zeneise, main Ligurian dialect, spoken in Genoa, Liguria, Italy) 5. †Genoese of Gibraltar (lìgure de Gibilt...

    Wikisource has original text related to this article: Ligurian language wikisource 1. Associazione O Castello(in Italian and Ligurian) 2. Académia Ligùstica do Brénno(in Ligurian) 3. "Official Orthography and Alphabet"proposed by the Académia Ligùstica do Brénno (in Ligurian) 1. GENOVÉS.com.ar (English version) – Ligurian language & culture, litera...

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  3. Ligurian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Liguria in northern Italy, and also in south west France, Monaco and southern Sardinia by about 500,000 people. Ligurian is part of the continuum of Western Romance languages and has a number of dialects, the most-spoken of which is Genoese (Zeneize). In Italy there are Ligurian speakers in ...

  4. Ligurian language, language spoken by the Ligurians in northwestern Italy (and perhaps also in southern France and northeastern Spain) in pre-Roman and early Roman times. It is apparently an Indo-European language. Some scholars have maintained that Ligurian is closely related to the Italic and.

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  5. Unlike the aforementioned languages, however, it exhibits distinct Italian features. No link has been demonstrated by linguistic evidence between Romance Ligurian and the Ligurian language of the ancient Ligurian populations, in the form of a substrate or otherwise.

  6. Ligurian or Genoese is a Romance language of the Gallo-Romance branch spoken in the Liguria region in northwestern Italy and in two communes in the Italian island of Sardinia as well as in parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Corsica in southeastern France, and in Monaco.

  7. It is part of the Gallo-Italic and Western Romance dialect continuum. Although part of Gallo-Italic, it exhibits several features of the Italo-Romance group of central and southern Italy. Zeneize (literally "for Genoese "), spoken in Genoa, the capital of Liguria, is the language's prestige dialect on which the standard is based.

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