Ligurian

Facts

  • Language: Ligurian
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: xlg
  • Language family: Unclassifiable
  • Number of speakers: Extinct
  • Script: Northern Italic

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    Introduction

    The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Ligures. Very little is known about this language (mainly place names and personal names remain) which is generally believed to have been Indo-European; it appears to have shared many features with other Indo-European languages, primarily Celtic (Gaulish) and Italic (Latin and the Osco-Umbrian languages).

    (See also: Ligure, a Romance language spoken in Italy)

    The Verb

    Lexical items

    1. asia (Lat. secāle) 'rye'
    2. biuo- (Lat. vīvus) 'living'
    3. bormo- (Lat. formus) 'warm'
    4. -giem- (Lat. hiems) 'winter'

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