historical linguistics - How did Italian manage to stay (mostly ...
Italian was adopted as an everyday written language long after French and English were. In medieval central Italy, literacy meant the ability to read and write Latin (and perhaps Greek if one was really learned)—that is, until influential writers like Dante and Petrarca wrote in a somewhat artificial version of il dialetto fiorentino and made it prestigious.
Aren't all spoken languages tonal? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
2022年5月4日 · There is no such thing as tone versus intonation. Intonation is suprasegmental. Tone in tone languages is not. – Lambie. May 3, 2022 at 17:28. Add a comment. All languages have intonation (at sentence or phrase level), or the rise and fall in speech over an utterance but not all languages are called tonal.
historical linguistics - Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French ...
French and Italian made 16 and 17 maximally different (seize vs. dix-sept). Spanish and Portuguese chose a more regular, but still distinct enough pattern (dieciseis and diecisiete). Romanian is the odd Romance language out, where Sound Change didn't put up much pressure and the old latin forms of 16 and 17 are pretty well preserved ...
Orthography changes in Italian - Linguistics Stack Exchange
2023年10月26日 · 1. One issue is that at the start of the 19th century, Italy had not been unified, and what would became standard Italian was then really Florentine Tuscan (think Dante). With unification, some words from other Italian languages/dialects were incorporated into standard Italian, and that might appear as orthographic change. – Henry.
Italian: is there an authoritative word frequency list?
2016年7月3日 · itWaC (Italian) itWaC: a 2 billion word corpus constructed from the Web limiting the crawl to the .it domain and using medium-frequency words from the Repubblica corpus and basic Italian vocabulary lists as seeds.
Italian Pronunciation Lost in Translation or regional language ...
2019年4月18日 · Ah Italian pronunciation. This is going to be fun! One thing you have to understand about the evolution of the Italian language is that Italian was for most of its existence an almost exclusively written language. It was the language in which the élites communicated with each other via letters and poetry, but it was rarely used in everyday ...
Why do English, Italian, German, Spanish, French and Latin share a ...
2015年9月3日 · In short: the people who taught the English, Italian, German, Spanish and French to read and write used one language for written communication amongst themselves. That language was Latin. – reinierpost
Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?
2012年12月26日 · This work (H. Wettig et al., Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change) presents a measure of language distance based on the amount of sound changes between cognates in the languages compared. It produces nice results, altho' it does not account for vocabulary replacement rates.
romance languages - Why does Italian use definite articles before ...
2017年10月29日 · The Italian language is well known for using definite articles quite liberally, before dates, weekdays, numbers, in some cases even in front of personal names as it is the case of the Milanese dialect: “il Giorgio”, “la Maria”. So I wonder what’s the origin of this “economy of expression” reserved to a family member.
romance languages - Can the "dialect continuum" phenomenon …
2018年1月4日 · "a word can found used in opposed geographical space" Italian and Portuguese share a few words which are not found anywhere else between Italy and Portugal. The first person singular subjective personal pronoun is the same word in Portuguese and Romanian, even though Portugal and Romenia are very far apart.