Talk:Monégasque language
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I'm afraid I have no idea what this sentence means:
- "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."
There are too many whiches and thisses to be disentangled. Does Ligurian have an /ø/ written œ? or is Ligurian œ instead pronounced /e/? Does Ligurian have an /ø/ written ö? or does it sound like /e/? Is there an ö/œ distinction in Ligurian that has been lost in Monégasque? QuartierLatin1968 
15:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
"tradiçiùn comes from the Latin traditio[nem] , and not from the Italian tradizione." I disagree strongly with the validity of this statement. Monegasque, along with all Ligurian languages, are derived directly from Italian along with strong influences in vocabulary, grammar and syntax from French and related Gallo-Romance languages. In this case, it is uncertain and difficult to determine whether tradiçiùn is derived straight from tradizione or the French tradition, however the distinction is minimal and of little significance, due to the high conservation of vocabulary and the close contact of the two languages.
- No -- Italian and Monegasque are contemporary varieties. One modern language cannot be derived from another modern language. Rather, they share common ancestors. What you have said is akin to saying that humans evolved from great apes.
