historical linguistics - How did Italian manage to stay (mostly ...
Italian is commonly cited as an example of a phonetically spelled language. It is easy to guess how an Italian word is pronounced based on the way it is written, because each written symbol highly …
Italian: is there an authoritative word frequency list?
Jul 3, 2016 · I'm having difficulty finding a good frequency list for the Italian language (lemmas, not including inflected word forms). Anyone know if there's some research or website or institute where I …
Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
Feb 6, 2019 · 29 French, Spanish and Italian use SVO in clauses with non-pronominal arguments. Many languages make use of more than one kind of word order; the "canonical" order used in simplistic …
romance languages - Why does Italian use definite articles before ...
Oct 29, 2017 · 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 …
Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance language?
This (and the fact that this language can be reconstructed back to the common Proto-Germanic language that all Germanic languages go back to) is really the best direct indicator that English is …
indo european - Are Germanic languages closer to Italo-Celtic …
Mar 3, 2021 · I ask because in some recent classifications, Italo-Celtic languages (like French, Spanish, Italian, Irish, and Breton), Balto-Slavic languages (like Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, and Serbo-Croat), …
Why do Spanish and Greek have such a similar phonology?
Dec 14, 2019 · Italian sounds just as much like Greek as Spanish does. We could measure this, with a list of features, or for example with a spoken language identification machine learning model, or …
romance languages - Can the "dialect continuum" phenomenon be ...
Jan 4, 2018 · A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a spread of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighbouring varieties differ only slightly, but the differences accumulate …
historical linguistics - Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French ...
I find Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French constructions for number words bizarre and inconsistent (whereas in Romanian it seems they are perfectly consistent as well as in Ancient Greek).
At what point does a language become its descendant?
Aug 7, 2018 · At what point do we say "These people in the Italian peninsula are no longer speaking Latin; they are speaking Italian"? There used to be an official answer to this: Italians were taught that …