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The grave accent ( ̀) (/ ɡ r eɪ v / GRAYV [1] [2] or / ɡ r ɑː v / GRAHV [1] [2]) is a diacritical mark used to varying degrees in French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and many other western European languages as well as for a few unusual uses in English.
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 ...
The Academia publishes an orthography of Ligurian, called grafia ofiçiâ ("official orthography"), with the aim of standardising the various ways of spelling Ligurian in a coherent and unambiguous way. [2] It has been adopted for several books, [3] [4] [5] websites, [6] software packages, [7] [8] as well as for the Ligurian edition of ...
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.
This category contains articles with Ligurian-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages.
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.
Rubat Borel, Untermann and Mees argue that Ligurian was a separate Indo-European language or language family, either related to or influenced by Celtic. [10] Conversely, de Bernardo Stempel has proposed that Ligurian might represent an archaic Celtic dialect that was influenced by a non-Celtic substratum to account for these differences.
In Barese the use of the accents is obligatory: acute accent, used when stressed vowels have a closed sound: é, í, ó, ú; grave accent, used when stressed vowels have an open sound: à, è, ò; The monosyllables do not need to be accented, with some notable exceptions, such as à (preposition), é (conjunction), mè (adverb), and some others.