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  2. Languages of Italy - Wikipedia

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    According to Minority Rights Group International: "The ethnic Albanian (Arbëresh) dialects of Italy bear little resemblance to the standard language or dialects of Albania, as they have been cut off from the main language for around 500 years. Some dialects spoken in Italy are so dissimilar that ethnic Albanians use Italian as a lingua franca ...

  3. Italian Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Italian Sign Language (Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its vocabulary.

  4. Vietnamese sign languages - Wikipedia

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    The HCMC and Hanoi languages especially have been influenced by the French Sign Language (LSF) once taught in schools, and have absorbed a large amount of LSF vocabulary. The Vietnamese languages are part of a sign language area that includes indigenous sign languages of Laos and Thailand , though it is not known if they are genealogically ...

  5. Category:Italian dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    8 languages. العربية ... Pages in category "Italian dictionaries" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  6. Genoese dialect - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Hanoi Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Hanoi Sign Language is the deaf-community sign language of the city of Hanoi in Vietnam. It is about 50% cognate with the other sign languages of Vietnam, and its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by the French Sign Language once taught in Vietnamese schools for the deaf.

  8. Salentino dialect - Wikipedia

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    The Salentino dialect is a product of the different powers and/or populations that have had a presence in the peninsula over the centuries: indigenous Messapian, Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine Greek, Lombard, French and Spanish influences are all, to differing levels, present in the modern dialect, but the Greek substratum has had a particular impact on the phonology and the lexicon of this ...

  9. Central Italian - Wikipedia

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    The plurals, which are grammatically feminine, are replaced by the feminine ending /-e/ in some dialects, leading to outcomes such as [ˈlabbru], [ˈlabbre] ‘lip’, ‘lips’ in the dialect of Spoleto. Both plural endings may alternate within a dialect, as in [ˈᴐːa] ~ [ˈᴐːe] ‘eggs’ in the dialect of Treia.