In pre-Roman times, the Ligurians occupied, at a minimum, the present-day Italian region of Liguria, Piedmont south of the Po river and north-western Tuscany, and the French region of PACA . However, it is generally believed that around 2000 BC, the Ligurians occupied a much larger area, including much of north-western Italy, all of northern Tuscany (the part that lies north of the Arno river), southern France, and a portion of what today is Catalonia (in the north-eastern corner of the Iberian URL Villar, Los Indoeuropeos y los origines de Europa: lenguaje e historia, Madrid, Gredos, 1991,"Ligures en España" Martín Almagro Basch Little is known of the Old Ligurian language , the lack of inscriptions does not allow a certain linguistic classification, with scholarly opinions suggesting either a Pre-Indo-European or an Indo-European language of the Celtic language family . The problem is closely related to the lack of inscriptions, and to the equally mysterious origin of the ancient Ligurian people. The linguistic hypotheses are mainly based on toponyms and names of persons . Because of the strong Celtic influences on their language and culture, they were known in antiquity as Celto-Ligurians (in Greek Keltolígues) . and it is generally believed , after a certain point, that Old Ligurian became an Indo-European language with particularly strong Celtic affinities, as well as similarities to Italic languages. Only some proper names have survived, such as the inflectional suffix -asca or -asco "village".The suffixes -asca or -asco do not appear to be related to the Celtic -brac, possibly meaning "swamp".
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