Intemelio dialect
{{Short description|Ligurian dialect spoke historically spoken from Monaco to Italian Imperia}}
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|speakers= approximately 10,000{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
|date=no date
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|fam3=Western
|fam4=Gallo-Romance
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|glotto=none
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Image:Le comté de Nice et Oneille.jpg (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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.intemelion.it/ascheri.pdf |title=The counts of Ventimiglia (in Italian) |access-date=2009-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722040026/http://www.intemelion.it/ascheri.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-22 |url-status=dead }}
In the actual Italian area of Ventimiglia there is the most renowned Intemelio: the "Ventimigliese", that stretches from the coast until Piedmont.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
The Royasc dialect is connected to the "Ventimigliese", as a mountainous version of the Intemelio that has some Occitan influences.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
In Sanremo the local intemelio dialect is heavily influenced by the Genoese dialect.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
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|date=September 2022}}
A few thousand speak fluently the local variants of Intemelio in France and Monaco: Monegasque, and Brigasc.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
Anecdote
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.seborga.homeip.net/seborga_menu_UK.html |title=Seborga official site |access-date=2009-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128102202/http://www.seborga.homeip.net/seborga_menu_UK.html |archive-date=2010-01-28 |url-status=dead }}
See also
References
Bibliography
- 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.
External links
- [http://www.intemelion.it Intemelion]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091121010734/http://www.liguri.net/portappennini/rnidaigura.htm#Brigaschi Magazine about Briga and ligurian dialects]
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