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  2. Italian orthography - Wikipedia

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    This use of accents is generally mandatory only to indicate stress on a word-final vowel; elsewhere, accents are generally found only in dictionaries. Since final o is hardly ever close-mid, ó is very rarely encountered in written Italian (e.g. metró, "subway", from the original French pronunciation of métro with a final-stressed /o/).

  3. Italian phonology - Wikipedia

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    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").

  4. Barese dialect - Wikipedia

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    In Barese the use of the accents is obligatory: acute accent, used when stressed vowels have a closed sound: é, í, ó, ú; grave accent, used when stressed vowels have an open sound: à, è, ò; The monosyllables do not need to be accented, with some notable exceptions, such as à (preposition), é (conjunction), mè (adverb), and some others.

  5. Italian language - Wikipedia

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    Italian is an official language in Italy, San Marino, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), Corsica, and Vatican City. It has official minority status in Croatia, Slovenian Istria, and the municipalities of Santa Tereza and Encantado in Brazil. [15] [16] Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and ...

  6. Regional Italian - Wikipedia

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    Regional Italian (Italian: italiano regionale, pronounced [itaˈljaːno redʒoˈnaːle]) is any regional [note 1] variety of the Italian language.. Such vernacular varieties and standard Italian exist along a sociolect continuum, and are not to be confused with the local non-immigrant languages of Italy [note 2] that predate the national tongue or any regional variety thereof.

  7. 75 Bellissima Italian Baby Girl Names - AOL

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    You don’t have to read between the lines to decipher the meaning of this Italian name of Greek and Latin origin. Psst: It’s “angel.” More Italian Baby Girl Names. 51. Amore. 52. Gabriella ...

  8. 125 Italian Boy Names and Their Meanings for Your ... - AOL

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    25. Aldo. While this means “old and wise,” it makes a great name for any boy. 26. Carlo. Keep your Italian heritage alive with this name that translates to “free man.”

  9. Tuscan dialect - Wikipedia

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    cannella (literary form in Standard Italian) for rubinetto (tap), widespread in Central and Southern Italy; capo (literary form in Standard Italian) and chiorba for testa (head) cencio for straccio (rag, tatters) (but also straccio is widely used in Tuscany) chetarsi (literary form in Standard Italian) or chetassi for fare silenzio (to be silent)