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Intemelio dialect

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Intemelio
intemelio
Native toMonaco, France, Italy
Native speakers
(undated figure of approximately 10,000[citation needed])
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
Linguasphere(Imperia) 51-AAA-ohb (Imperia)
Monaco -with Menton- was the extreme western area of the Republic of Genoa (green color) in 1664. Intemelio was spoken in this area, primarily between Ventimiglia and Sanremo.

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

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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

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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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References

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  1. ^ "The counts of Ventimiglia (in Italian)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
  2. ^ "Seborga official site". Archived from the original on 2010-01-28. Retrieved 2009-12-25.

Bibliography

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  • 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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