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Content1-History of Italian
1-a. Origins
1-b. Development
1-c. Modern Italian
2-Dialects of Italian
2-a. Influence and Derived Languages
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Content3- Geograhic Distribution
4- Italian Language Education
5- Italian as a lingua Franca6- The Words from Italian Origin
7- Cognates in Italian
8- English Language in Italy
Sources and Links
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1-History of Italian1-a.Origins
Derived from Latin
Italian has the closest resemblance to Latin.Italian is spoken commonly in the Italian
peninsula, Southern Switzerland, SanMarino, Sicily, Corsica, Northern
Sardinia, and on the northeastern shore ofthe Adriatic Sea and also in North andSouth America.
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1-a. OriginsItalian resembles to Latin and Spanish very
much in terms of phonetic.
We can find definite and indefinite definitionsand also two genders( masculine andfeminine) in Italian.
Its most important difference from the French
and Spanish is taking suffixes in differentsituations.
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1-b. DevelopmentWith the evolution of Italian, many dialects
appeared.
The earliest popular Italian documents,produced in the 10th century, are dialectal.
During the 14th century the Tuscan dialectbegan to predominate.
Tuscan is most related to classical Latin of allthe Italian dialects in morphology andphonology.
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1-c. Modern ItalianBeginning with the 19th century, the language
spoken by educated Tuscans(the writers of theMiddle-ages and the Renaissance) started to become
the language of a new nation.With mandatory schooling, the literacy rate
increased, and many speakers abandoned theirnative dialect in favor of the national language.
The country's parliament voted to add "The Italianlanguage is the official language of the Republic" tothe constitution in 2007.
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2- Dialects of ItalianDialects of Italian are regional varieties therefore
we can say Regional Italian, with features of allsorts, mostly phonological and lexical.
The traditional speech of Tuscany is viewed asthe collection of Dialects of Italy. The Italianlegislation recognizes only two as properlanguages: Friluian and Sardinian. In fact,
their regions are recognized with a politicalstatus than linguistic one.
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2-a. Influenced and Derived
LanguagesFrom the late 19th to the mid 20th century,
thousands of Italians settled in Argentina,Uruguay and southern Brazil, where theyformed a very strong physical and culturalpresence.
An example is Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
where Talian is used.Another example is Cocoliche, an Italian-
Spanish international language once spokenin Argentina.
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3- Geographic DisributionThe total speakers of Italian are between 60 and 70
million as a mother language. The speakers who useItalian as a second or cultural language are estimated
at around 110-120 million.Italian is the official language ofItaly and San
Marino and one of the official languages ofSwitzerland.
Italian and Italian dialects are widely used by Italianimmigrants and many of their descendants livingthroughout Western Europe.
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4- Italian Language
EducationItalian is commonly taught in many schools
around the world, but rarely as the firstforeign language. Actually, Italian is the fourthor fifth most taught foreign language in theworld.
In the European Union, Italian is spoken as a
mother tongue by 13% of the population(64 million, mainly in Italy itself) and as asecond language by 3% (14 million).
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5- Italian as a Lingua
FrancaIn late medieval times, Italian language
variants became the primary commerciallanguage in much of Europe and theMediterranean Sea. This was improved duringthe Renaissance with the strength of Italianand the rise ofhumanism in the arts.
The Grand Tour has a primary effect on itsspreading.
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6- The Words from Italian
OriginThere are some English words from Italian origin:
finale from finale
serenade from serenatacoffee from caff
Madonna from madonna, ="my lady"
carpet from carpita
balcony from balconepilot frompilota
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7- Cognates in ItalianTrue cognates in Italian:
dizionario dictionaryfarmacia pharmacy
intelligente intelligentmercato marketmuseo museumnecessario necessaryoceano oceanonesto honeststazione stationteatro theater
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7- Cognates in ItalianFlase cognates in Italian:
camera room (NOT a device for taking photographs)candido clean, spotless, innocent (NOT candid)
crudo uncooked (NOT crude)fastidio annoyance, boredom (NOT fastidious)genitori parents (NOT genitals)libreria bookstore (NOT library)magazzino store, warehouse (NOT magazine)
parente relative (NOT parent)
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Sources and LinksAnaBritannica 12 Italyanca p. 166Jessner U. (2006) Linguistic Awareness in Multilinguals: English
as a Third Language Multilingualism with English p. 7 EdinburghUniversity Press
http://www.italian-language-study.com/italian-language/origin.htmhttp://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/aa112608a.htmhttp://www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1099.htmlhttp://www.gadling.com/2007/03/30/new-offical-language-of-
italy-italian/
http://italian.about.com/library/weekly/aa060699a.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_dialectshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Italophone_World_-
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