It is almost identical in vocab to Genoan/Ligurian dialect from which it comes as it was part of the Genoan republic, but with a southern French accent to it, that’s why people say it’s more like French, but in reality it is more similar to Italian.
Thank God for this channel. If it weren't for you, dear I Love Languages!, I never would have even HEARD of Monégasque. Such a rich and beautiful tongue.
Monaco has French as its official language so it isn't strange when a Monaco folk speak his/her own language with French accent but phonologically Monégasque is still closer with Italian or Occitan. Nothing is more Frenchy than Emilian language that lies in the middle of Italian peninsula.
These "sounds like a mix of" seem to only know the main 5 romance languages... This is clearly a Ligurian dialect with an r closer to French and some nasal sounds thrown in the mix
And the french pronunciation, like "r" is only due to years of influence from France, but has nothing to do with the dialect itself. Just like with Corsican
@@rcic3706 Corsica has ligurian influences, nonetheless genoa(biggest city in liguria) used to rule corsica for quite a long time If you consider that corsica was french just some months before the birth of napoleon
I'm Romanian, I speak Italian, I know a lot of words from different Italian dialects and lanuages and other European languages, also from my Aromanian languages, and I'm surprised how I do not need to watch the video and still do I understand absolutely everything
hai ragione, infatti è una variante dalla lingua Ligure, fu fondata dagli antenati dei Grimaldi che era una delle famiglie ricche Genovesi.. ed è ovvio che si portassero con loro la loro lingua madre :)
Infatti il monegasco attuale é sorto dalla forte immigrazione ricevuta da parte di liguri nei secoli passati, rimpiazzando l’originale che era un dialetto del provenzale.
@@bepivisintainer2975 Can't it sound like several different languages? I definitely see the similarities with French, in any case, which doesn't mean monégasque comes from French.
I mean it does sound like French. I could understand almost all of it, with some words being copypaste. But there's definitely a difference in the sonorities
Essentially italian with O changed to U, a French R, a bit of French cadence and good to go! Between my French and Italian i just learned i can also speak Monaco's language. Sweet!
It's excellent! I'd never seen before anything about the Monegascu language. It's interesting to know how it sounds and how similar it is to Italian! 👏👏👏
It’s just that the speaker is French so she has a French accent, the actual Monegasque is a dialect of Ligurian language or Genoese, and it should be pronounced with a trilled “r”, but not many natives exist anymore so most of the people are French speakers who learn it later in elementary school
Yes! It's common to hear /ɹ/ for intervocalic simple in this part of Roman-speaking Europe. You can hear it in some Briançonese (Occitan) dialects too, /ɹ/ for intervocalic , as well as some and . More rarely you can hear /ð/.
While this is here most certainly due to the influence of french, romance languages in general have a (outside french largely unaccepted) tendency towards uvularizing their r-sound (see scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iulcwp/article/view/25798 ).
@@arielschant9841 I'm the person speaking in the video. Monégasque came from Ligurian but it's not a dilect, it's its own thing now. My r are correctly pronounced. They are rolled only between vowels. My samples were also checked by a Monégasque teacher before posting. Thank you
To the people saying its a mixture of this and that, Monegasque is a dialect of the ligurian language, which dates back pretty far. Saying it's a mixture of whatever languages you know is like saying Neanderthals look kinda like a mix between french and italian people. It belongs to the same branching evolutionary tree but it is neither an ancestor nor a descendant of its neighbor nations' official languages, let alone a mix.
Fonetically and fonologically monesgasco mix in harmony style sounds of leonese, extremeñian, Italian,portuguese and arpitan provencal. 😍 melodical idiom, totally latine and romance speech and sound.
Es el idioma nacional del Principado de Mónaco. Es un dialecto de la lengua de Liguria, una lengua que se habla en Italia, Francia (Alpes Marítimos y Córcega) y Mónaco.
No. It doesn't sound like Provençal or any Occitan speech. For example, there is no "ü" sound, and the finals /u/ are kept in the masculine, which is not the case in Occitan (Oc : lo gat. Here : u gatu). I reckon that this is more a form of Ligurian.
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Sounds like a mixture of Monegasque and Monegasque
and also maybe a little bit of Monegasque in it too
lmao
r/technicallythetruth
As a Monegasque speak I can understand 100% of it !
You ad a bit of Monegasque in it and here we have this languague
Some people might say it sounds like a mixture of french and Italian but I personally think it sounds like Italian and French.
With a touch of Sicilian thrown in for good measure.
it sounds like brazilian portuguese too
Not all the time btw*
Not in its original form.
It is almost identical in vocab to Genoan/Ligurian dialect from which it comes as it was part of the Genoan republic, but with a southern French accent to it, that’s why people say it’s more like French, but in reality it is more similar to Italian.
Portuguese speaker here. I understood a lot.
Thank God for this channel. If it weren't for you, dear I Love Languages!, I never would have even HEARD of Monégasque. Such a rich and beautiful tongue.
Monaco has French as its official language so it isn't strange when a Monaco folk speak his/her own language with French accent but phonologically Monégasque is still closer with Italian or Occitan. Nothing is more Frenchy than Emilian language that lies in the middle of Italian peninsula.
Monegasque is a dialect of the Ligurian language
A different sort of Ligurian Dialect. I am from Savona and I understand all !
These "sounds like a mix of" seem to only know the main 5 romance languages...
This is clearly a Ligurian dialect with an r closer to French and some nasal sounds thrown in the mix
THE ONLY RIGHT COMMENT!!!! Bravo!
And the french pronunciation, like "r" is only due to years of influence from France, but has nothing to do with the dialect itself. Just like with Corsican
Finally a good comment. That's hardcore ligurian with guttural R
@@rcic3706 Corsica has ligurian influences, nonetheless genoa(biggest city in liguria) used to rule corsica for quite a long time
If you consider that corsica was french just some months before the birth of napoleon
For those who don't know, this is a Ligurian dialect that went under Occitan (specifically Provençal) and some French influence
I think old Church Slavonic would be interesting.
Same.
I'm Romanian, I speak Italian, I know a lot of words from different Italian dialects and lanuages and other European languages, also from my Aromanian languages, and I'm surprised how I do not need to watch the video and still do I understand absolutely everything
@VFM #7634 portuguese accent
Que estranha semelhança com o português, fantástico ouvir as parecências entre as duas, principalmente no que se refere a cores números e saudações.
Sounds like Ligurian, an Italian language. Just because nowadays people speak French in Monaco this doesn't mean that Monegasque sounds like French
hai ragione, infatti è una variante dalla lingua Ligure, fu fondata dagli antenati dei Grimaldi che era una delle famiglie ricche Genovesi.. ed è ovvio che si portassero con loro la loro lingua madre :)
Infatti il monegasco attuale é sorto dalla forte immigrazione ricevuta da parte di liguri nei secoli passati, rimpiazzando l’originale che era un dialetto del provenzale.
Ligurian is not an Italian Language. Is a language belonging to the Gallo Romance group. Italian belongs to the Italo Dalmatian group.
@@bepivisintainer2975 Can't it sound like several different languages? I definitely see the similarities with French, in any case, which doesn't mean monégasque comes from French.
I mean it does sound like French. I could understand almost all of it, with some words being copypaste. But there's definitely a difference in the sonorities
Essentially italian with O changed to U, a French R, a bit of French cadence and good to go! Between my French and Italian i just learned i can also speak Monaco's language. Sweet!
We re all brothers Ligury / Piemontese , Mentone , Monaco , Nizza e Corsica
I don't speak Portuguese, but as a Portuguese-speaker, this sounds a lot like Portuguese mixed with Portuguese.
It's excellent!
I'd never seen before anything about the Monegascu language. It's interesting to know how it sounds and how similar it is to Italian! 👏👏👏
De l'italien/ corse prononcé avec un fort accent occitan, c'est magnifique !
i thought Brindisi is a toast which we say before drinking, not the one we eat with jam....
This language has an interesting 'r' sound. Seems like /ɹ/ between vowels and /ʁ/ elsewhere.
It’s just that the speaker is French so she has a French accent, the actual Monegasque is a dialect of Ligurian language or Genoese, and it should be pronounced with a trilled “r”, but not many natives exist anymore so most of the people are French speakers who learn it later in elementary school
I heard some American Rs.. was not expecting that
Yes! It's common to hear /ɹ/ for intervocalic simple in this part of Roman-speaking Europe. You can hear it in some Briançonese (Occitan) dialects too, /ɹ/ for intervocalic , as well as some and . More rarely you can hear /ð/.
While this is here most certainly due to the influence of french, romance languages in general have a (outside french largely unaccepted) tendency towards uvularizing their r-sound (see scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iulcwp/article/view/25798 ).
@@arielschant9841 I'm the person speaking in the video.
Monégasque came from Ligurian but it's not a dilect, it's its own thing now.
My r are correctly pronounced. They are rolled only between vowels. My samples were also checked by a Monégasque teacher before posting.
Thank you
It’s like a mix of Italian and French. As a French Canadian with some Italian basics, i understand this !
To the people saying its a mixture of this and that, Monegasque is a dialect of the ligurian language, which dates back pretty far. Saying it's a mixture of whatever languages you know is like saying Neanderthals look kinda like a mix between french and italian people. It belongs to the same branching evolutionary tree but it is neither an ancestor nor a descendant of its neighbor nations' official languages, let alone a mix.
Fonetically and fonologically monesgasco mix in harmony style sounds of leonese, extremeñian, Italian,portuguese and arpitan provencal. 😍 melodical idiom, totally latine and romance speech and sound.
Beautiful language!
Beautiful
Is part of the old Romanian language, influenced a bit by french language (french colonies in Africa in vocabular and accent) and Portuguese accent...
this reminds me of piemonteis a bit, with throaty r sound and nasals
I am italian and i can understand all 100% without even reading (from Liguria)
Lol i like how the general public starts going against the “sounds like a mixture of ... and of ...” trend all of a sudden
When she said "u corpu" she sounded 99% like she was speaking Brazilian Portuguese.
This is great thank you
it souds as a mixture of french and italian with a flavor of portuguese
Ask for recommendation monaco(munegascu) dialect songs?
Hi Andy, have dropped a mail about Creole...do take a look please...
Qué hermoso el idioma.
I've been to Principality of Monaco in 2012!! It's a very beautiful country 😍
Hi Andy, can you do the Pure Vietnamese language please ? I would love to see that
Sounds like Romanian & French had a baby, beautiful language
Sounds like it's own language, periodt
Brindisi isn't the kind of "toast" that you eat. It's the "toast" that you give with your drinks in honor of someone.
this is a mix of French and Italian with a Portuguese accent
what's the weird accent on some vowels? acute?
A little like the swiss- romance. Šukhulad e špiritüs. Nice
Sounds like a German trying to speak Albanian, but his mom is like British or something 😂
I always thought they spoke French in Monaco. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari F1 driver) speaks French and he's from Monaco
They do, rarely anyone speaks this language. But I’m learning it, it’s so hard cuz no one’s here to help me.
Definitely sounds like a mix of French and Albanian (the r sounds the same)
Man it's just sounds like french and Italian had a baby and then disowned it
And I love it
Sounds like a mix of Ligurian and Corse dialects
what countrys or States in Europe by france Speak this Language? i am Interested
Mónaco
and even then very few
Why did you pronounce this like mid French-Spanish-Romanian? I'm shocked
Talvez o Chales Leclerc entenda alguma coisa.
Sounds like a Frenchman speaking Italian.
I wonder what came of the people/descendants of the people who left Monaco as a result of being priced out
Lmao I firstly thought that this language was spoken in Indonesia and was super confused that it had Romance numerals.
This does not sound French at all. This sounds exactly like Italian only with -U endings as opposed to A or O-endings.
Because bongurnu it sounds like bonjour and buongiorno in each other
Sounds like it could be an occitan dialect
Annie please give bengali language of Bangladesh please
It feels like I'm in a coma and listening to Portuguese
Reminds me of Corsu,at least a little bit
French + italian + portuguese
Tiene palabras parecidas al español. Si bien la mayoría no se escribe igual, a la hora de pronunciarlo es casi igual.
Este idioma de donde es?
Monaco
Monaco
Monaco
Monaco
Es el idioma nacional del Principado de Mónaco. Es un dialecto de la lengua de Liguria, una lengua que se habla en Italia, Francia (Alpes Marítimos y Córcega) y Mónaco.
Sounds like French + Italian + Spanish
Please do Croatian language
Is this a standardized form of Provençal?
No. It doesn't sound like Provençal or any Occitan speech. For example, there is no "ü" sound, and the finals /u/ are kept in the masculine, which is not the case in Occitan (Oc : lo gat. Here : u gatu). I reckon that this is more a form of Ligurian.
It's a form of Ligurian
No, monegasque is a dialect of the Ligurian Language.
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French and Sicilian having a child.
Me whose live in indonesia:
Mom can i have some "Te" 👁👁
This language is a mixture of french and italian
Next : Indonesia , Malaysia , Brunei , Bangladesh
So this is what rich sounds like
As many said, a mix between French and Italian but the words looks like Albanian 😂
True.
Not so many people speak monégasque actually. Only very old persons.
French influenced italian dialect like, Corsican and Aosta
Corsican is not a French influenced dialect as you can see : ruclips.net/video/sBVg3S1xywo/видео.html
Valdostan (in Aosta) isn't an italian dialect, it's an arpitan/francoprovençal dialect influenced by italian, not the opposite
Sounds like a language
As a Filipino, I find this not sounding like Mayan
At first glance, my uneducated mind thought it would be very much like Romanian (ends with u). But apparently it is very much like Italic
Many regional languages in Italy have u endings, from North to South
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They speak Swiss German
There's no such thing as a Liechtenstein language.
You mean the sound of liechtensteinian german
To me it’s mixture of French and Portuguese
Sounds like Ligurian with a French accent
As Indonesian 🇮🇩, I understand 0%
Imagine saying you had a black wrist...
Sounds like........ Monegasque.
that's basically Ligurian with a kind of French accent.
Perfect italian French
Sounds like a misture of romanian and italian
Sembra Lumbard
Sounds like Italian with a heavy French accent
Italian spoken by a native french speaker.
the monegask lengvidj
It sounds quite Latin
🇫🇷+🇮🇹=🇲🇨
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sOunDs LikE a MixTuRe oF tWo RaNdOm lAnGuAgEs!1!!!11!
It' imperiese dialect
The "towel" got my face to do :o . "Servietă" in Romanian means "breifcase". In Romanian "towel" is "prosop".
So, this is the language of the richest people on earth?
Just as I thought, similar to French! 😂😂😂😂
Looks like a german-speaking person trying to speak portuguese carioca (from Rio de Janeiro).
Sounds a lot like Corsican