Italian
Language
Italian
alphabet, Italian language history and sources
Italian
language
Italian: Majority of Italians now speak Italian, therefore
regional dialects are used less and less. Two bilingual
regions (
Number
of Italian Speakers: Principally in the Italian peninsula,
southern Switzerland, San Marino, Sicily, Corsica, northern
Sardinia, and on the northeastern shore of the Adriatic Sea,
former Italian colonies (Somalia, Ethiopia, Tunisia and
Libya), as well as in North and South America.
Italian
Alphabet: Composed of 21 letters.
Italian
Language History: 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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Italian
Language Enriched by: Roman language.
Unique
Features of Italian: In Italian, the endings of most words
vary according to the way the words are used in a sentence.
Verbs also vary depending on mood, who is acting, and
whether the action is in the past, present, or future.
Italian
language is included in
the
Speech Assessment Methods
Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable
phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based
on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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