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Ciao (/ tʃ aʊ / CHOW, Italian: ⓘ) is an informal salutation in the Italian language that is used for both "hello" and "goodbye". Originally from the Venetian language , it has entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world.
"Goodbye", an English parting phrase used in the West, is a contraction of "God be by ye". [5] "Khuda Hafiz" ("God protect (you)"), used among Iranians and South Asian Muslims "Namaste", parting phrase of Indian origin "Shalom" ("Peace"), used among Jewish parting and greeting phrase
The Spanish language is widely spoken in most of the Catalan-speaking territories, where it is partly characterized by language contact with the Catalan language.These territories are: Catalonia, the Valencian Community (except some inland areas which are only Spanish-speaking), the Balearic Islands, Andorra, and the easternmost areas of Aragon.
One or another variation on the word is found in several languages. In Czech and Slovak , ahoj is a common, colloquial greeting, while 'hoi' in Modern Dutch and Swiss German , ‘oi’ in Brazilian Portuguese and Italian , and 'Ohøj' in Danish are informal greetings equivalent to the English 'hi' or 'hey'.
The Spanish digraph ch (the phoneme /tʃ/) is pronounced in most dialects. However, it is pronounced as a fricative in some Andalusian dialects, New Mexican Spanish, some varieties of northern Mexican Spanish, informal and sometimes formal Panamanian Spanish, and informal Chilean Spanish. In Chilean Spanish this pronunciation is viewed as ...
By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -California's public health department reported a possible case of bird flu in a child with mild respiratory symptoms on Tuesday, but said there was ...
In Galicia, it's common to see instructions and written information, like in museums and bus stops, using the formal pronoun vostede to address the reader. However, it's more likely that a worker and costumer use ti/tu when communicating, or to switch to Spanish with informal pronouns (see Spanish below), than using the formal pronoun vostede.
We're firmly in awards season with the 2024 college football regular season and conference championships complete.. While the 2024 Heisman Trophy will be awarded on Saturday, the nation's top ...