Intemelio | |
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intemelio | |
Native to | Monaco, France, Italy |
Native speakers | (undated figure of approximately 10,000[ citation needed]) |
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.
This section relies largely or entirely on a
single source. (September 2022) |
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]
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]
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]