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Kimba the White Lion
Despite the political and social isolation of some of these regions, Italy played a prominent role in the cultural and historical heritage of Europe and of the Western world. The main elements of Italian culture are its art, music, cinema, style, and food.
The official and most widely spoken language across the country is Italian, which started off based on the medieval Tuscan of Florence. In parallel, many Italians also communicate in one of the local languages, most of which, like Tuscan, are indigenous evolutions of Vulgar Latin.
In this chapter the his-torical, social and cultural background framing language contact between the En-glish-speaking world and the Italian peninsula will be retraced, in order to identify the seamless weaving between cultural contact and lexical borrowing.
Dec 18, 2019 · This collection of essays is the first English-language study to present the latest research on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. It explores topics...
Jul 4, 2023 · The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of English-induced borrowings are presented on the basis of quantitative and qualitative information provided by Italian lexicographic sources and corpus-based evidence.
CHAPTER TWO The Languages of Italy. (pp. 35-48) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442677401.6. In this chapter I should like to deal with the Italian linguistic situation from three points of view - first, linguistic variety in Italy: the standard, the dialects, and the minority languages.
