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Ligurian may mean:
- Ligurian, pertaining to modern Liguria
- Ligurian, pertaining to the ancient Ligures
- Ligurian (Romance language), a modern language spoken in parts of Italy, France, Monaco and Argentina
- Ligurian (ancient language), the extinct language spoken in the ancient Ligures
- The Ligurian bee
- The Ligurian Sea
- The Ligurian Sea Cetacean Sanctuary
Ligurian (lìgure or lengoa lìgûre) 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. It is part of the Western Romance language continuum. The Genoese (Zenéize), spoken in Genoa, the capital of Liguria, is the language's prestige dialect on which the standard is based.
Ligurian has almost 500,000 native speakers, and is still widely spoken by many in Genoa and in many of the small towns and villages in the region. There are also many groups dedicated to the preservation of the language such as Associazione Culturale O Castello in Chiavari, which offers Ligurian (Genovese) language courses. Notable native speakers of Ligurian include Niccolò Paganini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Christopher Columbus, Eugenio Montale, Giulio Natta, Italo Calvino, and Fabrizio De André.There is also a popular musical group, Buio Pesto, who compose songs entirely in the Genoese dialect.
There is a long literary tradition of Ligurian poets and writers that goes from the 13th century to the present, such as Luchetto (the Genoese Anonym), Martin Piaggio and Gian Giacomo Cavalli.
Usage examples of "ligurian".
Vanno had easily found his way on to a mule path, rough yet well kept, and ancient perhaps as the hidden Ligurian forts.
Coming down from a Ligurian fort, by an old mule track that ended on the upper Corniche road, he saw an automobile which had stopped at the foot of the path.
She was a beauty, and her fame spread until people of all classes made errands to the laiterie of Verando, Emilio, to stare at the dark-browed girl who was like a splendid Ligurian storm-cloud.
In order to avoid having to cross the Maritime Alps, the train ran along the coast of the Mediterranean after leaving Marsaille, past Toulon, Carme, Nice, and Monaco to the Ligurian coast.
Napoli Express was nearly twenty-five miles out of Marsaille, headed for a rendezvous with the Ligurian border.
The train began to slow, and at thirty minutes after midnight, it came to an easy stop at the check station on the Ligurian border.
The Ligurian authorities had to check the bills of lading for the cargo in the freight cars at the front of the train, but there was no search or actual checking of the cargo itself.
Through the windows beyond him, the Ligurian countryside rushed by in the darkness.
The western-most portion of the plain was peopled by Ligurian tribes, and was therefore called LIGURIA, while its eastern extremity formed the Roman province of VENETIA.
Hannibal entered the country of the Ligurian tribes, who had lately declared in his favor, and descended by the valley of the Macra into the marshes on the banks of the Arno.
Boians, it was natural that these should conduct him by the passage that led directly into the territory of their allies and brothers-in-arms, the Insubrians, rather than into that of the Taurinians, a Ligurian tribe, who were at this very time in a state of hostility with the Insubrians.
All these things were in his Ligurian blood, and he breathed them in with the very air of Genoa.
He swore Corsican, Ligurian, Calabrian, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabian and Portuguese.
The Egadi Island group, so named by the early settlers after islands off the west coast of Sicily, consisted of hundreds of points of rock in the Ligurian Sea, stretching a thousand kilometers to the south of the continent on which Placetas was situated.
But down in the cove on an uncharted islet in the vast Ligurian Sea, the five fugitives ate and drank and laughed and told stories far into the night.