Intemelio dialect
| Intemelio | |
|---|---|
| intemelio | |
| Native to | Monaco, France, Italy |
Native speakers | (undated figure of approximately 10,000[citation needed ]) |
Indo-European
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| Linguasphere | (Imperia) 51-AAA-ohb (Imperia) |
Intemelio is a Ligurian dialect spoken historically from the Principality of Monaco to the Italian province of Imperia.
History
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Since the Renaissance the Ligurian language was spoken in all the territories of the Republic of Genoa; in the western area of the Republic one of its groups (spoken mainly on the coast between Monaco and Sanremo) was called Intemelio and was centered on Ventimiglia.[1]
In the actual Italian area of Ventimiglia there is the most renowned Intemelio: the "Ventimigliese", that stretches from the coast until Piedmont.[citation needed ]
The Royasc dialect is connected to the "Ventimigliese", as a mountainous version of the Intemelio that has some Occitan influences.[citation needed ]
In Sanremo the local intemelio dialect is heavily influenced by the Genoese dialect.[citation needed ]
Current use
[edit ]Intemelio is used by nearly 10,000 people in the area of Ventimiglia of the province of Imperia, but other 40,000 are able to understand it and speak a few sentences of this dialect in western Liguria.[citation needed ]
A few thousand speak fluently the local variants of Intemelio in France and Monaco: Monegasque, and Brigasc.[citation needed ]
Anecdote
[edit ]The Ligurian area of Seborga speaks the "Ventimigliese" dialect Intemelio and the so-called Principality of Seborga considered the possibility of using this dialect as the official language.[2]
See also
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[edit ]- ^ "The counts of Ventimiglia (in Italian)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011年07月22日. Retrieved 2009年12月26日.
- ^ "Seborga official site". Archived from the original on 2010年01月28日. Retrieved 2009年12月25日.
Bibliography
[edit ]- Azaretti, Emilio. L'evoluzione dei dialetti liguri. Sanremo: Edizioni Casabianca, 1982. Pp. xxii + 416.
- Dalbera, Jean-Philippe. Les Ilots Liguriens de France, dans Les Langues de France sous la direction de B. Cerquiglini. (Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France). Presses Universitaires de France. Paris, 2003. pp. 125–136
- Devoto, Giovanni. I Dialetti delle Regioni d'Italia. Sansoni Editore. Florence, 1971
- Toso, Fiorenzo. Liguria linguistica. Dialettologia, storia della lingua e letteratura nel Ponente. Philobiblon. Ventimiglia, 2006
- Werner Forner. À propos du ligurien intémélien - La côte, l’arrière-pays. . Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Nice, 7–8, 1986, pp. 29–62.
- Werner Forner, Morphologie comparée du mentonnais et du ligurien alpin: Analyse synchronique et essai de reconstruction. DeGruyter, 2022.
- Magazine Intemelion. Edited in Sanremo by Brigati Glauco, from Review La voce intemelia.
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