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Ciao (/ tʃ aʊ / CHOW, Italian: ⓘ) is an informal salutation in the Italian language that is used for both "hello" and "goodbye".. Originally from the Venetian language, it has entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world.
These are lists of spelling-to-sound correspondences in the Catalan language. The two main standard forms ( Standard Catalan and Standard Valencian ) are used as primary transcriptions norms of their respective spelling forms.
The Spanish language is widely spoken in most of the Catalan-speaking territories, where it is partly characterized by language contact with the Catalan language.These territories are: Catalonia, the Valencian Community (except some inland areas which are only Spanish-speaking), the Balearic Islands, Andorra, and the easternmost areas of Aragon.
The DGLC began to be considered the official dictionary of the Catalan language from 1954 onwards, when the second edition was published. During the decade of 1980s Catalan authors and writers began to ask the IEC to revise the dictionary, because they considered that the language had evolved quite a lot since the time of Fabra.
Balearic (Catalan: balear) is the group of dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Mallorca, eivissenc in Ibiza and menorquí in Menorca.. At the 2011 census, 861,232 respondents in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to understand either Balearic or mainland Catalan, compared to 111,912 respondents who could not; proportions were similar on each of the islands.
In Irish, the popular greeting is Dia dhuit (singular) or Dia dhaoibh (plural, meaning "God with you" in both cases), similar to the English "goodbye", a contraction of God be with ye; [4] today, "goodbye" has a less obviously religious meaning. Catalan formal expression adéu-siau ("be with God", in archaic Catalan)
Catalan grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Catalan language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages. Catalan is a relatively synthetic, ...
The Catalan and Valencian orthographies encompass the spelling and punctuation of standard Catalan (set by the IEC) and Valencian (set by the AVL). There are also several adapted variants to the peculiarities of local dialects of Insular Catalan ( Alguerese and the Balearic subdialects ).