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The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and current south-eastern France known as the Ligures. Very little is known about ancient Ligurian; the lack of inscriptions and the unknown origin of the Ligurian people prevent its certain linguistic classification as a Pre ...
Ligures. Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. Ligures are located in the upper left corner of the map (green). The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. [1]
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The Ligures (singular Ligus or Ligur; English: Ligurians) were an ancient Indo-European people who appear to have originated in, and gave their name to, Liguria, a region of north-western Italy. [1] Elements of the Ligures appear to have migrated to other areas of western Europe, including the Iberian peninsula .
Ligurian or Genoese ( lìgure or zeneize) 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 .
Ligurian may refer to: Ligurian, pertaining to modern Liguria in Italy; Ligurian, pertaining to the ancient Ligures; Ligurian language, a modern Romance language spoken in parts of Italy, France, Monaco and Argentina; Ligurian (ancient language), an extinct language spoken by the ancient Ligures; Ligurian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea
Little or nothing is known of the Ligurian language before the Roman conquest. What little is known is deduced from toponymy – such as the famous ending in -asko/a of many place names, supposedly meaning “house” – and from a few rare testimonies by classical authors, such as saliunka, “species of valerian”, and sigynnai, “merchants”.
