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Compared to Romanesco, the language spoken in Rome during the Middle Ages presented features much closer to those observed in the contemporary Southern Italo-Romance languages, [1] [2] already noticeable in the 11 th-century Saint Clement and Sisinnius inscription, and fully showcased in the 14 th-century work Vita di Cola di Rienzo [] (“Life of Cola di Rienzo”), by an anonymous Roman author.
Romanesco is an Italian adjective meaning "pertinent to the medieval and modern Roman people". Romanesco may refer to: Romanesco dialect, an Italian dialect spoken in the city of Rome and its surroundings; Romanesco broccoli, a kind of cauliflower
A few common words, however, show an early merger with ō /oː/, evidently reflecting a generalization of the popular Roman pronunciation: [citation needed] e.g. French queue, Italian coda /koda/, Occitan co(d)a, Romanian coadă (all meaning "tail") must all derive from cōda rather than Classical cauda. [94]
Romanesco broccoli (also known as broccolo romanesco, romanesque cauliflower, or simply romanesco) is in fact a cultivar of the cauliflower ...
The name "Rhaeto-Romance" refers to the former Roman province of Raetia. The question of whether these languages actually form a subfamily is called the Questione Ladina . The Italian linguist Graziadio Ascoli , writing in 1873, found them to share a number of intricacies and believed they formed a linguistic group. [ 1 ]
Use of plurals in /s/ in the northwest vs. plurals using vowel change in the southeast. Development of palatalized /k/ before /e,i/ to /(t)s/ in the northwest vs. /tʃ/ in the southeast. Development of /kt/, which develops to /xt/ > /it/ (sometimes progressing further to /tʃ/) in the northwest but /tt/ in the southeast.
Judeo-Roman (Italian: Giudaico-Romanesco) or Italkit is the only still living dialect of the Judeo-Italian languages, historically used by the Jews living in Rome. [1] It is spoken by 250 people, most of whom live in Italy. The language is on the decline and most of its remaining speakers are elderly. [1]
Romanitas is the collection of political and cultural concepts and practices by which the Romans defined themselves. It is a Latin word, first coined in the third century AD, meaning "Roman-ness" and has been used by modern historians as shorthand to refer to Roman identity and self-image.