Everything about Mon Gasque Language totally explained
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Romance
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Italo-Western
|fam4=Western
|fam5=
Gallo-Iberian
|fam6=
Gallo-Romance
|fam7=
Gallo-Italic
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Monaco
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Monégasque (natively
Munegascu or
Munegu) is a
Romance language and a dialect of the modern
Ligurian language. It is rather similar to the language spoken in
Genoa, but differs from its neighbour languages
Intemelian and
Mentonasque. It has been strongly influenced by
Occitan. Contemporary
Nissart is also traditionally spoken in some parts of Monaco, besides Monégasque. Before the annexation of the
County of Nice to
France in 1860, the
Nizzardo Italians spoke a Nissart dialect very similar to the Monegasque.
It is spoken in addition to
French by the Monégasques. Because the Monégasques are only a minority in Monaco, Monégasque was threatened with extinction in the 1970s. But the language is now being taught in schools, and its continuance is regarded as secured. In the old part of Monaco, the street signs are marked with Monegasque in addition to French.
Monégasque
orthography generally follows
Italian principles, with the following exceptions:
- the ü is pronounced as in German, or as the French u.
- the œ is pronounced as the French é, and not like the French œu as in bœuf, which is how œ is pronounced in Ligurian, which also uses the character ö to represent this sound.
- the ç is pronounced as in the French ç [s]: tradiçiùn comes from the Latin traditio[nem], and not from the Italian tradizione.
Below is an excerpt from the Monégasque national anthem, written by
Louis Notari. In addition, there exists an older French version of the anthem whose lyrics bear different meaning. The choice between the two forms is generally subject to occasion and circumstance.
"Despoei tugiù sciü d'u nostru paise
Se ride au ventu, u meme pavayùn
Despoei tugiù a curù russa e gianca
E stà l'emblema, d'a nostra libertà
Grandi e i piciui, l'an sempre respetà"
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