Monégasque dialect
Monegasque (or Monégasque) is a Romance language based on Ligurian; it is spoken in Monaco and taught in schools there. It is rather similar to language spoken in Genoa, and is different 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 form ö to stand for this sound.
- the ç is pronounced as in French (/s/): tradiçiùn comes from the French tradition and not from the Italian tradizione.