
- historical linguistics - How did Italian manage to stay (mostly ...- Italian is commonly cited as an example of a phonetically spelled language. It is easy to guess how an Italian word is pronounced based on the way it is written, because each written symbol … 
- Italian: is there an authoritative word frequency list?- Jul 3, 2016 · I'm having difficulty finding a good frequency list for the Italian language (lemmas, not including inflected word forms). Anyone know if there's some research or website or … 
- Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?- Feb 6, 2019 · 29 French, Spanish and Italian use SVO in clauses with non-pronominal arguments. Many languages make use of more than one kind of word order; the "canonical" order used in … 
- romance languages - Why does Italian use definite articles before ...- Oct 29, 2017 · The Italian language is well known for using definite articles quite liberally, before dates, weekdays, numbers, in some cases even in front of personal names as it is the case of … 
- romance languages - Can the "dialect continuum" phenomenon …- Jan 4, 2018 · A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a spread of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighbouring varieties differ only slightly, but the differences … 
- historical linguistics - Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French ...- I find Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French constructions for number words bizarre and inconsistent (whereas in Romanian it seems they are perfectly consistent as well as in Ancient … 
- Why do Spanish and Greek have such a similar phonology?- Dec 14, 2019 · Italian sounds just as much like Greek as Spanish does. We could measure this, with a list of features, or for example with a spoken language identification machine learning … 
- cross linguistic - Which language has the biggest vocabulary ...- Mar 17, 2013 · Modern Greek language has over 350.000 word entries (λήμματα,ρίζες των λέξεων) so the number of the derivative words in Greek vocabulary is much bigger than … 
- What are the most specific features of Tuscan dialect of Italian?- Standard Italian is based on the written form of the Tuscan dialect used by Dante and Petrarch, and does not take into account the changes in the language since the establishment of the … 
- Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance …- This (and the fact that this language can be reconstructed back to the common Proto-Germanic language that all Germanic languages go back to) is really the best direct indicator that English …