Study A Language : About Italian
The Italian language has been dated back to the end of tenth century and shares characteristics with Romanian, Spanish, French and Portuguese. However, it took around another four hundred years for Italian to become an official language.
In today’s time, there are about seventy million individuals that speak Italian. Not surprisingly the majority of people speaking Italian are in Italy, Vatican, San Marino and even Switzerland however large pockets of native speakers can be found in South America, the United States and even Malta, Slovenia and Croatia.
The Italian language is known for having many, many flavorful dialects. You might find certain linguists willing to say people in different cities of Italy speak different languages. The closest dialect to ‘standard’ Italian is the Tuscan dialect, as well as the Lasiale, Romanesco and Umbrian dialects, while Sicilian and Neapolitan bear almost no intelligible similarities to Italian.
The amount of Italian letters is twenty-one but there are five other letters applied to names from other countries. Most of the vocabulary for this language comes from Latin, however Italian manages to refresh simply by the borrowing of words from German, French and English. You may have heard some popular foods, art terms and music vocabulary that stems from the Italian language.
Italian grammar is also Latin based and therefore shares its main features with the other Romance languages. As with these languages, word order most often follows the order Subject-Verb-Object and so on with nouns determined by gender and number, finding agreement with adjectives, while verbs agree with their subjects and are placed based on person and number.
For those who have already learned how to speak another Romance language, this language is easily adaptable due to the several similarities in which they share. However, learning to speak Italian seems to be very popular with those who speak English as well as other Germanic languages.
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