Ligurian (ancient language)

Ligurian
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
Language family	Unclassified (Pre-Indo-European ?, Paleo-European ?, or Celtic ?, para-Celtic?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xlg
Linguist List	xlg
Glottolog	anci1248

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.

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.

^ Ligurian at MultiTree on the Linguist List
^ Kruta 1991, p. 54.
^ Kruta 1991, p. 55.
^ "Liguri". Enciclopedie on line. Treccani.it (in Italian). Rome: Treccani -Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. 2011. Le documentazioni sulla lingua dei Liguri non ne permettono una classificazione linguistica certa (preindoeuropeo di tipo mediterraneo? Indoeuropeo di tipo celtico?).
^ "Ligurian language". Britannica.com. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2015-08-29.

[linglist-1] Ligurian at MultiTree on the Linguist List

[FOOTNOTEKruta199154-2] Kruta 1991, p. 54.

[FOOTNOTEKruta199155-3] Kruta 1991, p. 55.

[4] "Liguri". Enciclopedie on line. Treccani.it (in Italian). Rome: Treccani -Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. 2011. Le documentazioni sulla lingua dei Liguri non ne permettono una classificazione linguistica certa (preindoeuropeo di tipo mediterraneo? Indoeuropeo di tipo celtico?).

[Ligurian_language-5] "Ligurian language". Britannica.com. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2015-08-29.

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