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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 ...
The Hani language (Hani: Haqniqdoq or xa31 ɲi31; simplified Chinese: 哈尼语; traditional Chinese: 哈尼語; pinyin: Hāníyǔ; Vietnamese: Tiếng Hà Nhì) is a language of the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic group spoken in China, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam by the Hani people.
Forlivese is the central variety of Romagnol spoken in the city of Forlì and in its province. [6]In Italian-speaking contexts, Forlivese (like most of the other non-Italian language varieties spoken within the borders of the Italian Republic) is often generically called a "dialect".
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]
Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The 4 remaining letters aren't considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.
Features that distinguish Marchigiano in general from Italian include: Apocope in words stressed on a penultimate syllable followed by /-nV/. The equivalents of Italian contadino, piccioni, and cane ('farmer, pigeons, dog') are contadì, picció, and cà. [1] The presence of the ending -aro or -aru (from Latin -ārium) where Italian instead has ...
Emilian-Romagnol (Italian: emiliano-romagnolo) is a linguistic continuum that is part of the Gallo-Italic languages spoken in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. [3] It is divided into two main varieties , Emilian and Romagnol .
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]