Ligurian language (ancient)

Ligurian
Native toLiguria
RegionNorthern Mediterranean Coast straddling South-east French and North-west Italian coasts, including Northern Tuscany and Corsica.
Era300 BCE (?) – 100 CE[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xlg
xlg
Glottologanci1248

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-Indo-European[4] or an Indo-European language.[5] The linguistic hypotheses are mainly based on toponymy and onomastics.

  1. ^ Ligurian at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  2. ^ Kruta 1991, p. 54.
  3. ^ Kruta 1991, p. 55.
  4. ^ "Liguri". Enciclopedie on line. Treccani.it (in Italian). Rome: Treccani -Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. 2011. Le documentazioni sulla lingua dei Liguri non ne permettono una classificazione linguistica certa (preindoeuropeo di tipo mediterraneo? Indoeuropeo di tipo celtico?).
  5. ^ "Ligurian language". Britannica.com. 16 December 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2015.