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Born in Genua. In Italian language "Cristoforo Colombo". Sailed in 1492 and was the first European to arrive in the "New World" of the Americas. Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395–1469), merchant and explorer of India. Henri de Tonti (1649/1650–1704), explorer for France. Founded the first European settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley ...
Map 1: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony Map 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic speaking people towards Italian peninsula Map 3: Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula.
Verbs are given in their "dictionary form". The exact form given depends on the specific language: For the Germanic languages and for Welsh, the infinitive is given. For Latin, the Baltic languages, and the Slavic languages, the first-person singular present indicative is given, with the infinitive supplied in parentheses.
Pigafetta's dictionary is the first Italian–Malay vocabulary written by the chronicler Antonio Pigafetta. [1] These are the list words of the languages of various natives he met during his journey with Ferdinand Magellan.
Tattoos may be decorative (with no specific meaning), symbolic (with a specific meaning to the wearer), pictorial (a depiction of a specific person or item), or textual (words or pictographs from written languages). Many tattoos serve as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for ...
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin [2] or Neo-Latin [3] languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. [4] They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are:
A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional , meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional , allowing translation to and from both languages.
Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013), also known as Divine Julius, was the ultimate insider of Italian political life. For half a century he was at the heart of power. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (born 1920), is a politician and banker who has been both Prime Minister of Italy and President of the Italian Republic. Franco Frattini (born 1957), is a politician.