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 | | The official languages in Switzerland are German, spoken by 2/3 of the population (in a variety of dialects collectively known as Swiss German); French, spoken by about 20%; Italian, spoken by 8%; and Rumantsch spoken by less than 1% of the population. | | | RULES (a) Contributors may use any written language they would use in Switzerland, as well as English. | | | There are some ways to enter ETH/EPF with unrecognized certificates and gateways for ETS/HTL, as long as you have solid math basis and you speak at least two swiss languages (this is of course a big problem for ``Auslandschweizer'', foreign Swiss citizens). |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/swiss/faq
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| | New York University Bobst Library: Collection Development Policy: Italian Literature |
| | The collection is very weak in representative works of emigre Italian literature as well as in basic texts and works relating to Italian dialects (both in Italy and abroad). | | | The Italian collection supports CAS and GSAS programs in Italian through the doctoral level. | | | The interdisciplinary approach of courses and research within the Italian department (especially for, but not restricted to, medieval and renaissance studies) are supported by the various pertinent collections in art (including music), history, philosophy, religion, the social sciences, and the sciences. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/cdps/hum/italit.htm
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| | languagehat.com: ITALIAN DIALECTS. |
| | When you compare Romanian and Italian glossaries or dictionaries you see that the word for "blind" is 'orb' in Romanian but 'cieco' in Italian yet some regional northern Italian dialects have uorbo for 'blind' making more sense as to where the Romanians got their word. | | | Some linguists claim that, generally speaking, French is closer to the Gallo-Italic dialects of northern Italy while Spanish is closer to the southern Italian dialects of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily, especially Sicily. | | | Spanish has also been compared to the Paduan and Venetian dialects in northeastern Italy which are different from Gallo-Italian. |
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http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002000.php
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| | Italian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In contrast to the dialects of northern Italy, the older southern Italian dialects were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the middle ages. | | | Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and is an official language in Switzerland because it's spoken in Ticino and Grigioni cantons. | | | Italian has few diphthongs, and so most unfamiliar diphthongs heard in foreign words (in particular, those with a first vowel that is not "i" or "u", or a first vowel that is stressed), will be assimilated as the corresponding dieresis (i.e., the vowel sounds will be pronounced separately). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language
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| | History of the Italian Language |
| | The very distinct southern dialects, such as Pugliese, Lucano, Maruggese, Salentino and Calabrese are as difficult to understand to the northern Italians as the dialects spoken on the islands of Sicily, Siciliano, and the islands of Sardinia, Sardo and Corsica, Corso. | | | Italian, considered the closest living language to Latin, is spoken in many dialects, all of which are bastardized spin-offs from Latin colloquialism. | | | The most notable writings by the great Italian writers dating back to the 10th century were written in dialects. |
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http://www.arcaini.com/ITALY/ItalianLanguage/ItalianLanguage.htm
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| | Italian resources |
| | Links to text and resources on Italian dialects in general and on various specific dialects. | | | Here I'm only going to list monolingual Italian dictionaries and Italian dialect or slang dictionaries (note on the word "dialect": here it means any romance language variety spoken in Italy, with the exception of Standard Italian). | | | Among the services that can be accessed after a free registration there are conjugation tables for all Italian verbs, answers to common questions about the Italian language and a thesaurus. |
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http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/lang/italian.htm
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| | Articles - Italian language |
| | The dialects of Italian identified by the Ethnologue are Tuscan, Piemontese, Abruzzese, Pugliese (Apulian), Umbrian, Laziale, Central Marchigiano, Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano, and Molisan. | | | In contrast to the dialects of northern Italy, the older southern Italian dialects were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the middle ages. | | | Dialects are often used in movies to provide comic relief or to produce stereotypes: northern dialects can be connected to greedy merchants; a Roman accent is associated with arrogant, simple-minded bullies; Neapolitan reminds of dishonest, cunning slackers, and, even in Italy, Sicilian is often associated with the mafia. |
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http://www.gaple.com/articles/Italian_language?mySession=cf8cdcad415c44ce0f2f6bfe8c9b1173
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| | Pagina1 |
| | Italian languages, however, have been less influenced by the standard since they are morphologically and phonologically distant from the romance family of Italian dialects which contributed to the birth of Italian. | | | Like the Italian dialects, such languages are unfortunately doomed to extinction unless more is done to preserve them, since they are less and less spoken by younger generations who, for different reasons (work, the media, traveling...) tend to be more exposed to Italian. | | | Dialect is usually learned alongside Italian from the cradle and this should be proof enough that a child can safely learn more languages well before the school age. |
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http://pagina1.altervista.org/historyaitalian11.htm
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| | Italian Language |
| | Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their domination. | | | South of these districts, we find the Central-Southern Italian dialects; Tuscan, Corsican, north Sardinian, Roman (including the closely related dialects of Umbria and The Marche), Campanian (with which are included Abruzzese and Apulian), Sicilian, and Calabrian. | | | An Italian dialect of the eastern Alps, the Friulian, is spoken in northeastern Venetia. |
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http://www.floria-publications.com/italy/italian_culture/italian_language.html
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| | Articles - Italian language |
| | The dialects of Italian identified by the Ethnologue are Tuscan, Piemontese, Abruzzese, Pugliese (Apulian), Umbrian, Laziale, Central Marchigiano, Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano, and Molisan. | | | In contrast to the dialects of northern Italy, the older southern Italian dialects were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the middle ages. | | | Dialects are often used in movies to provide comic relief or to produce stereotypes: northern dialects can be connected to greedy merchants; a Roman accent is associated with arrogant, simple-minded bullies; Neapolitan reminds of dishonest, cunning slackers, and, even in Italy, Sicilian is often associated with the mafia. |
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http://www.ccomplete.com/articles/Italian_language
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| | General Overview of the Italian Language |
| | Italian dialects developed from Vulgar Latin, the colloquial language of the late Roman empire. | | | For most Italians their first contact with the standard language comes in primary school, in which until recently it was the only dialect used; standard Italian is virtually the only dialect of culture in modern Italy, and with immigration from the south to the industrial north it is becoming increasingly the language of intercommunication. | | | Standard Italian began to be developed in the 13th and 14th centuries as a literary dialect. |
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http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Italian/Italian.html
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| | Italian dialects - definition of Italian dialects in Encyclopedia |
| | "dialetti italiani) are varieties of standard Italian, whereas Dialects of Italy (in it. | | | Italian dialects - definition of Italian dialects in Encyclopedia | | | Thus, from a linguistic point of view, many "dialects of Italy" are true languages split into different varieties, i.e. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Italian_dialects
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| | italian language |
| | Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like the other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of the Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their dominion. | | | The Italian language was a result of the genius of Dante to create an acceptable amalgamation of the various dialects into a masterfully consistent language for use throughout Italy. | | | Dialects of Italian are also spoken outside of the political boundaries of Italy. |
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http://www.elsdatabank.com/italiancourse/italianlanguage.htm
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| | Italian dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dialects of Italian are varieties of Standard Italian, and they should not be confused with the varieties sometimes labelled Dialects of Italy, which, according to Ethnologue, belong to different branches of the family of Romance languages. | | | It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Dialects of Italian. | | | The label "Italian dialects" is often but ambiguously used. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_dialects
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| | Ethnologue 14 report for language code:ITN |
| | Aquilano, Molisano, and Pugliese are very different from the other Italian 'dialects'. | | | Most Italians use varieties along a continuum from standard to regional to local according to what is appropriate. | | | 55,000,000 mother tongue speakers, some of whom are native bilinguals of Italian and regional varieties, and some of whom may use Italian as second language. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ITN
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| | Italian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Because the Italian of Italian Americans comes from a time just after the unification of the state, their language is in many ways anachronistic and demonstrates what the dialects of Southern Italy used to be, before the assimilating programs of the north. | | | Eighty percent of Italian Americans are of Southern Italian origin, therefore the languages spoken by their families who arrived between 1880-1920 were most likely variations of the Neapolitan and Sicilian languages with perhaps some degree of influence from the standardized Florentine dialect. | | | The formal "Italian" that is taught in colleges and universities is generally not the "Italian" with which Italian Americans are acquainted. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American
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| | Gil Fagiani |
| | Dialects are not derived from Italian, nor are they varieties or adaptions of the national language. | | | While most Italian Americans are unaware that dialects have a written literary tradition, in the last 20 years there has been, what can only be described as a phenomenal surge of interest among poets to make dialect the artistic language of choice. | | | Millions of Italian Americans trace their ancestry to Southern Italy but until the publication of this pioneering work, there has been nothing available in the United States that could serve as a general introduction to the popular languages and literatures of the actual places from which their families originated. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol9_2Fagiani.htm
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| | Italian Rap Potere alla Parola |
| | Many Italian rappers reposition international Hip Hop by using Italian dialects in opposition to a national trend in flattening language distinctiveness. | | | Italian rappers deliver their politicized rhymes in Genovese, Neapolitan, Sicilian, and Venetian in a conscious search for a popular voice rooted in place and the everyday lives of working people. | | | Non-standard Italian is a significant social phenomenon in Italy, where speakers from the north are unintelligible from those in south, and where up until recently the inhabitants of some neighboring mountain towns could not understand each other. |
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http://www.italianrap.com/intro/parole.html
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| | Tourism in the Chianti. Tuscany Holidays in Italy, history, economy, government |
| | The principal non-Italian minorities are about 260,000 German-Italians, who live in the Alto Adige (formerly Austria's South TYROL) and speak the German dialects of Austria and Bavaria; and 53,000 Slavic Italians, scattered in several areas in Friuli and Venezia-Giulia. | | | Nevertheless, most speak Italian or dialects or languages related to Italian. | | | These dialects vary considerably from region to region and are considered separate languages in the case of Sardinian, spoken by about 1.2 million people in Sardinia; Friulian, a Rhaeto-Romanic language spoken by about 520,000 people in the northeastern district of Friuli; and Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romanic language spoken in the mountains of the Alto Adige. |
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http://www.bardotti.com/italy1.htm
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| | learn Italian in Florence, Italian language school in Italy with friendly language course. |
| | The multiplicity of these dialects and their individual claims upon their native speakers as pure Italian speech presented a peculiar difficulty in the evolution of an accepted form of Italian that would reflect the cultural unity of the entire peninsula. | | | The Italian language school in Florence "Spirito Italiano" was originally founded in Kobe in Japan in the Autumn of 1998, with the goal of spreading Italian language and culture. | | | Linguistically speaking, the Italian language is a member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. |
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http://www.spiritoitaliano.com
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| | "Italian and Its Dialects Spoken in the United States." American Speech 8 (1926): 431-435. | | | Italian Folktales in America: The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman. | | | "Italian Funeral." American Mercury 15 (October 1928): 200-206. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~acicala/folk.html
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| | Overview of the Italian Language to Help You Learn Italian |
| | These dialects, vaguely similar to Italian but often unintelligible to people not born in the area, are living reminders of Italy's feudal past and the isolation of its various regions prior to unification. | | | Italian is also completely phonetic, meaning that every letter corresponds to a specific pronounced sound, making it relatively easy to learn Italian pronunciation and spelling. | | | The Italian language is pleasing to the ear, even to those who do not understand a word of it. |
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http://www.transparent.com/LanguagePages/italian/overview.htm
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| | learn Italian in Florence, Italian language school in Italy with friendly language course. |
| | Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like the other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of the Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their dominion. | | | I gradually developed a communicative teaching method that suits every student and allows them to learn Italian grammar in a more natural way. | | | For this reason, our main objective is to adapt our Italian language program to the desires and abilities of students, individually and in groups. |
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http://www.spiritoitaliano.com
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Italian language @ HighBeam Research |
| | Northern Italian dialects are the Gallo-Italian—including Piedmontese, Ligurian, Lombard, and Emilian—and Venetian. | | | ITALIAN LANGUAGE [Italian language] member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). | | | Italian is often described both as the language of art and music and as the language best suited to singing. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:ItalLan&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | Italian language, alphabet and pronunciation |
| | Italian first started to appear in written documents during the 10th century in the form of notes and short texts inserted into Latin documents such as lawsuits and poetry. | | | Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, the Vatican City, Malta and Eritrea. | | | The Italian used was full of Latin words and over time Latin was used less and less as Italian became increasingly popular. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/italian.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Italian Language |
| | Often considered a language with numerous dialects (many of which are regarded as separate languages), Italian, like the other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of the Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their dominion. | | | South of these districts some of the Italo-Dalmatian languages are found; these are Judaeo-Italian (a Jewish language), Sicilian (spoken in Sicily), Napoletano-Calabrese (including the Neapolitan dialect), and the dialects of Italian proper, including Tuscan, Umbrian, and Molisano. | | | Italian Language, one of the Romance group of languages, a subgroup of the Italic languages of the Indo-European language family. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560079/Italian_Language.html
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| | UD Ling and Cog Sci Grad Conf Abstracts |
| | The main goal of this paper is to provide a phonetic characterization of non-geminate consonants and geminate consonants, measuring the duration of consonants themselves and the preceding vowel in the two Italian Dialects, Northern Italian and Southern Italian. | | | What this experiment shows us is that the duration of the preceding vowel in non-geminate consonants is significantly longer than that in geminate consonants in both dialects, and the duration of geminate consonants is significantly longer than that of non-geminate consonants in both dialects, too. | | | Interestingly, it has been suggested that Italian exhibits dialectal variation, in terms of geminate vs. non-geminate consonants (Hurch and Rhodes 1996). |
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http://www.ling.udel.edu/kabak/conference/abstracts.html
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