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Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: Located in eastern Pennsylvania, this name of this river is said to be a Dutch translation of the original Leni Lenape name. [1] Outsiders often have great difficulty pronouncing the name — and, when sounded out, say skuːlkɪl/ SKOOL-kil. Locals, however, pronounce the name as /ˈskuːkəl/ SKOO-kəl.
English: This video was recorded by Steven Campo in Independence, Louisiana, a U.S. American town with a large Sicilian population. Sicilian is spoken by as many as five million people, primarily in the Italian island of Sicily, as well as parts of mainland regions Calabria, Campania, and Apulia.
Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪʃɪˈljaːnʊ]; [3] Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [4] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).
I am a Sicilian and I have no knowledge of IPA, but I can tell that, although they do sound similar, especially when spoken fast, Sicilian TR and English TR are somehow different. First, in English, unless it’s spoken fast, I can tell the boundary between the two sounds T and R; in Sicilian I don’t, ever.
The Commission and the Sicilian Mafia Commission: two bodies, Italian-American and the Sicilian respectively, of leading Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Mafia. This Thing of Ours (Cosa Nostra): a mob family, or the entire mob.
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Piccitto's 5 volume Sicilian dictionary goes for almost 6,000 pages and has about 250,000 Sicilian words in it, maybe a quarter of them are quite similar to the Italian, but about another quarter don't even have an exact Italian translation, i.e. the Sicilian vocabulary is absolutely immense, and is probably only rivalled by the English ...
Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation [1] technique in which, unlike in dubbing, actor voices are recorded over the original audio track which can be heard in the background. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees in countries where ...