Re: OT: A lenga munegasca!

Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>  --- Christophe Grandsire skrzypszy:
>
> > Anybody has any idea what "líguru" means?
>
> Ligurian? ;)))))
>
> No, seriously, weren't the Ligurians one of those non-IE peoples that
> inhabited
> the region before that part of the world was romanised? Like the
> Rhaetians and
> the Etruscans, who were of course all related to the Basques ;) ?
I've been told that the Ancient Ligurians were IE, and that they were not, but
in either case there ought to exist a dialect of Italian from Liguria, doesn't
it?

                                                    Andreas