This article is about the modern Ligurian language. For the distantly-related ancient language see Ligurian language (ancient). Ligurian is a Gallo-Romance language spoken in Liguria in Northern Italy parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France Monaco and in the villages of Carloforte and Calasetta in Sardinia. Genoese (Zenéixe) spoken in Genoa the capital of Liguria is its most important dialect.
ISO 639-3 code
lij
family
Italic languages, Romance languages, Gallo-Romance languages, Western Romance languages
spoken in
Italy, Monaco, Piedmont, Sardinia, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Corsica, Buenos Aires, France, Argentina, Tuscany
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