Brigasc dialect
| Brigasc | |
|---|---|
| Brigasc | |
| Native to | Italy, France |
Native speakers | aproximately 1,000 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | roa |
| ISO 639-3 | lij |
Brigasc is a dialect of the Ligurian language, which is spoken in Italy and France.
Area of use
The Brigasc dialects are the dialect of Roya, the dialect of Tanaro and the dialect of Argentina, named respectively after the rivers Roya, Tanaro and Argentina.
The dialect of Roya is spoken in the French department of Alpes-Maritimes. The dialect of Tanaro is spoken in the Italian province of Cuneo. The dialect of Argentina is spoken in the Italian province of Imperia.
History
During the Renaissance the ligurian language was spoken in all the territories of the Republic of Genoa: in the western area of this republic one of its groups (spoken mainly in the area between the Principality of Monaco and Sanremo) was called Intermelio. The intermelio spoken in the mountains around Briga was called Brigasc and had some influence from the occitan language of Savoy.
In 1947, when France obtained Briga and Tenda from Italy, some french scholars wanted to catalogue the brigasc as an occitan dialect[1].
But recently most scholars believe that Brigasc is a ligurian dialect, because of lessical and phonetical characteristics (Werner Forner[2], Jean-Philippe Dalbera[3] e Giulia Petracco Sicardi[4]).
References
- ^ Werner Forner, "La fumée et le feu. À propos des tentatives de délimitation de l’aire occitane sud-orientale. Première partie: De 1850 à 1950", in P. Fabre (a cura di), Mélanges dédiés à la mémoire du Prof. Paul Roux, La Farlède (Association Varoise pour l’enseignement du provençal), 1995, pp. 155-180.
- ^ Werner Forner, "À propos du Ligurien Intémélien. La côte, l’arrière-pays", in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Nice, 7-8 (1985-1986), pp. 29-61; Werner Forner, "Areallinguistik I: Ligurien", in Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (LRL), IV, Tübingen 1988, pp. 453-469 ; Werner Forner, "Géographie linguistique et reconstruction, à l’exemple du ligurien intémélien", in Actes du I Colloque International sur l’ancien provençal, l’ancien français et l’ancien ligurien, Nice sept. 1986 ("Bulletin du Centre de Romanistique et de Latinité Tardive"), Nice 1989, pp. 125-140; Werner Forner, "Fra Costa Azurra e Riviera: tre lingue in contatto", in V. Orioles, Fiorenzo Toso (a cura di), Circolazioni linguistiche e culturali nello spazio mediterraneo. Miscellanea di studi, Recco 2008, pp. 65-90.
- ^ Jean-Philippe Dalbera, Les parlers des Alpes-Maritimes. Étude comparative. Essai de reconstruction. London 1994, Pubblicazione dell’Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes.
- ^ Giulia Petracco Sicardi, E. Azaretti, "Studi linguistici sull’anfizona Liguria-Provenza", in Dizionario Etimologico Storico Ligure, Alessandria 1989, a pp. 11-62, di Giulia Petracco Sicardi, "Contributo alla definizione dell’anfizona Liguria-Provenza.
See Also
Bibliography
- Fiorenzo Toso, Il brigasco e l'olivettese tra classificazione scientifica e manipolazioni politico-amministrative, in Intemelion. Cultura e territorio - Quaderno annuale di studi storici dell'Accademia di cultura intemelia, n. 14, anno 2008; website online (in Italian)