Monégasque language
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Monégasque (or Munegascu) is a Romance language based on Zeneize, the modern Ligurian language; it was spoken in Monaco and taught in schools there. 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.
Monegasque 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 French tradition /tʁadisjɔ/, and not from the Italian tradizione.
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