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The alternative to the grave accent in Mandarin is the numeral 4 after the syllable: pà = pa4. In African languages and in International Phonetic Alphabet, the grave accent often indicates a low tone: Nobiin jàkkàr ('fishhook'), Yoruba àgbọ̀n ('chin'), Hausa màcè ('woman'). The grave accent represents the low tone in Kanien'kéha or ...
Genoese, locally called zeneise or zeneize (Ligurian:), is the prestige dialect of Ligurian, spoken in and around the Italian city of Genoa, the capital of Liguria.. A majority of remaining speakers of Genoese are elderly.
Ligurian (/ l ɪ ˈ ɡ j ʊər i ə n / lig-YOOR-ee-ən; [2] endonym: lìgure) or Genoese (/ ˌ dʒ ɛ n oʊ ˈ iː z / JEN-oh-EEZ; [3] endonym: zeneise or zeneize) [4] is a Gallo-Italic language spoken primarily in the territories of the former Republic of Genoa, now comprising the area of Liguria in Northern Italy, parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, Monaco (where it is called ...
Monégasque (munegascu, pronounced [muneˈɡasku]; French: monégasque, pronounced ⓘ; Italian: monegasco) is the variety of Ligurian spoken in Monaco. It is closely related to the Ligurian dialects spoken in Ventimiglia and is considered a national language of Monaco, though it is not the official language of the country, which is French.
Courses for people already outside the education system have also been developed. In spite of these advances, the current state of Piedmontese is quite grave, as over the last 150 years the number of people with a written active knowledge of the language has shrunk to about 2% of native speakers, according to a recent survey. [9]
The Ligurian name of the River Po, recorded as Bodincus, is said by Pliny to mean "of unmeasured depth" in Ligurian, which can be compared to Sanskrit budhná- ('bottom, ground, base, depth'), Latin fundus and Middle Irish bond ('sole of the shoe'). [9] Many of the other proposed Ligurian glosses remain uncertain.
The acute and grave accents are occasionally used in poetry and lyrics: the acute to indicate stress overtly where it might be ambiguous (rébel vs. rebél) or nonstandard for metrical reasons (caléndar), the grave to indicate that an ordinarily silent or elided syllable is pronounced (warnèd, parlìament).
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Ligurian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Ligurian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.