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  2. Italian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Just like many other Romance languages, Italian verbs express distinct verbal aspects by means of analytic structures such as periphrases, rather than synthetic ones; the only aspectual distinction between two synthetic forms is the one between the imperfetto (habitual past tense) and the passato remoto (perfective past tense), although the ...

  3. Corrado Veneziano - Wikipedia

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    His debut solo exhibition, Le forme dei non-luoghi ("Forms of Non-Places"), was held in Rome's ECOS Gallery in 2013, [2] with commentary from critics Achille Bonito Oliva and Marc Augé. In 2014, he exhibited in Brussels at the Institute of Italian Culture as part of the "Non-places" event, introduced by media scholar Derrick de Kerckhove. [3]

  4. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Italy

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    The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage elements are the non-physical traditions and practices performed by a people. As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. [1]

  5. 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)

  6. Italian language - Wikipedia

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    Italian is widely spoken in Malta, where nearly two-thirds of the population can speak it fluently (see Maltese Italian). [56] Italian served as Malta's official language until 1934, when it was abolished by the British colonial administration amid strong local opposition. [57]

  7. Culture of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italy is considered one of the birthplaces of Western civilization [2] and a cultural superpower. [12] Italian culture is the culture of the Italians, a Romance ethnic group, and is incredibly diverse spanning the entirety of the Italian peninsula and the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.

  8. Italian conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Italian verbs have a high degree of inflection, the majority of which follows one of three common patterns of conjugation. Italian conjugation is affected by mood, person, tense, number, aspect and occasionally gender. The three classes of verbs (patterns of conjugation) are distinguished by the endings of the infinitive form of the verb:

  9. Judeo-Italian dialects - Wikipedia

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    Judeo-Italian (or Judaeo-Italian, Judæo-Italian, and other names including Italkian) is a groups of endangered and extinct Jewish dialects, with only about 200 speakers in Italy and 250 total speakers today. [2] The dialects are one of the Italian languages and are a subgrouping of the Judeo-Romance Languages. [3]