Ligurian (ancient language)
Extinct unclassified language of northwest Italy and southeast France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the prehistoric language of the Ligures. For the modern Romance language, see Ligurian language.
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.
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| 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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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.