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AOL Travel has compiled 15 of the most common Italian phrases to help take the metro to the Coliseum in Rome, spot haute couture in Milan or chat with the locals in Palermo. Buon viaggio!
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/l/ becomes /r/ before another consonant: sòrdi, Italian soldi "money"; in Romanesco, as in most Central and Southern Italian languages and dialects, /b/ and /dʒ/ are always geminated where permissible: e.g. libbro for Standard Italian libro "book", aggenda for agenda "diary, agenda".
The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]
A work containing the words to an opera, musical, or ballet Melodramma: melodrama: A style of opera Opera: work: A drama set to music for singers and instrumentalists Opera buffa: humorous opera: A comic opera Opera semiseria: semi-serious opera: A variety of opera Opera seria: serious opera: An opera with a serious, esp. classical theme ...
Characteristically-Tuscan words: accomodare (which means "to arrange" in Standard Italian) for riparare (to repair) babbo (standard form in Italian before the French loanword papa) for papà (dad), also in Umbria, Marche; billo for tacchino (turkey), found also in Umbria and Lazio; bove (literary form in Standard Italian) for bue (ox), also in ...
s followed by a voiced consonant becomes voiced [z], as in Italian. scc is pronounced [ʃtʃ], like sc of the Italian word scena followed sonorously by c of the Italian word cilindro. x is read [ʒ] like the French j (e.g. jambon, jeton, joli). z, even when it is doubled as zz, is always pronounced [z] as the s in the Italian word rosa. [9]
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