| Ligurian | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Liguria |
| Region | Northern Mediterranean Coast straddling South-east French and North-west Italian coasts, including Northern Tuscany and Corsica. |
| Era | 300 BCE (?) – 100 CE[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xlg |
xlg | |
| Glottolog | anci1248 |
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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-Indo-European[4] or an Indo-European language.[5] The linguistic hypotheses are mainly based on toponymy and onomastics.
- ^ Ligurian at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- ^ Kruta 1991, p. 54.
- ^ Kruta 1991, p. 55.
- ^ "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?).
- ^ "Ligurian language". Britannica.com. 16 December 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2015.