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  2. Old Italic scripts - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place. The most notable member is the Etruscan alphabet, which was the immediate ...

  3. Italian orthography - Wikipedia

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    e. Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses the Latin alphabet to write the Italian language. This article focuses on the writing of Standard Italian, based historically on the Florentine variety of Tuscan. [1] Written Italian is very regular and almost completely phonemic – having an almost one-to-one correspondence ...

  4. Italian phonology - Wikipedia

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    Open. a. In Italian phonemic distinction between long and short vowels is rare and limited to a few words and one morphological class, namely the pair composed by the first and third person of the historic past in verbs of the third conjugation—compare sentii (/senˈtiː/, "I felt/heard'), and sentì (/senˈti/, "he felt/heard"). Normally ...

  5. Help:IPA/Italian - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Italian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Italian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any ...

  6. Humanist minuscule - Wikipedia

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    Humanist minuscule is a handwriting or style of script that was invented in secular circles in Italy, at the beginning of the fifteenth century. [1] ". Few periods in Western history have produced writing of such great beauty", observes the art historian Millard Meiss. [2] The new hand was based on Carolingian minuscule, which Renaissance ...

  7. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Romance; Latin/Neo-Latin: Geographic distribution: Originated in Old Latium on the Italian peninsula, now spoken in Latin Europe (parts of Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe) and Latin America (a majority of the countries of Central America and South America), as well as parts of Africa (Latin Africa), Asia, and Oceania.

  8. V - Wikipedia

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    V is used to represent the Roman numeral 5. V is the symbol for vanadium. It is number 23 on the periodic table. Emerald derives its green coloring from either vanadium or chromium. v, v., and vs can also be used as an abbreviation for the word versus when between two or more competing items (e.g. Brown v.

  9. Italic script - Wikipedia

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    Example page of the "Italique Hande" from a copy of A booke containing diuers sortes of hands... first published in 1570.. Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy.