The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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... Italian dialects : Southern Latian , Abruzzese , Campanian , Cala- brian , Apulian , and Sicilian , each further divisible into a great num- ber of local speech forms . Certain idioms within the confines of the present Italian state and ...
... Italian dialects : Southern Latian , Abruzzese , Campanian , Cala- brian , Apulian , and Sicilian , each further divisible into a great num- ber of local speech forms . Certain idioms within the confines of the present Italian state and ...
Pagina 58
... Italian from Latin- without of course , in our eyes , making it a worse or poorer lan- guage , though one of a fundamentally different structure . Where Latin had ... Italian dialects those of Tuscan speech have the 58 TONGUES OF ITALY.
... Italian from Latin- without of course , in our eyes , making it a worse or poorer lan- guage , though one of a fundamentally different structure . Where Latin had ... Italian dialects those of Tuscan speech have the 58 TONGUES OF ITALY.
Pagina 59
... Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of lingua franca , and that it was ... Italian dialects for this particular reason . The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew nothing of any closeness of his ...
... Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of lingua franca , and that it was ... Italian dialects for this particular reason . The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew nothing of any closeness of his ...
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