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	Articles - Italian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In contrast to the dialects of northern Italy, the older southern Italian dialects were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the middle ages.
		The dialects of Italian identified by the Ethnologue are Tuscan, Piemontese, Abruzzese, Pugliese (Apulian), Umbrian, Laziale, Central Marchigiano, Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano, and Molisan.
		Dialects are often used in movies to provide comic relief or to produce stereotypes: northern dialects can be connected to greedy merchants; a Roman accent is associated with arrogant, simple-minded bullies; Neapolitan reminds of dishonest, cunning slackers, and, even in Italy, Sicilian is often associated with the mafia.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Italian_language?mySession=cf8cdcad415c44ce0f2f6bfe8c9b1173 (2256 words)

	French language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The French language is a Romance dialect, meaning that it is descended from Latin.
		Latin quickly became the lingua franca of the entire Gallic region for both mercantile, official and educational reasons, yet it should be remembered that this was Vulgar Latin, the colloquial dialect spoken by the Roman army and its agents and not the literary dialect of Cicero.
		The dialect that developed there as a language of administration and literature is referred to as Anglo-Norman.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/French_language (3473 words)

	Dalmatian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Dalmatian is an extinct Romance language formerly spoken along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro.
		The last speaker of any Dalmatian dialect was Tuone Udaina (in Italian: Antonio Udina), and he was killed by a landmine on June 10, 1898.
		The chakavian dialect and Dubrovnik shtokavian dialect in Croatia, which was spoken outside the cities since the Slavs migrated, gained importance in the cities by the 16th century, and it eventually completely replaced Dalmatian as a day-to-day language.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Dalmatian_language (1247 words)

	Romance languages, Latin's grand-children
		The dialect of Paris gradually became the national language, however, because of the political prestige of the capital and today is accepted as the model for the French language.
		Dialectal varieties of the emerging Italian language revolved around Gallo-Italian in the northwest; a northeastern or Venetian group; a central dialectal group that included the speech of Tuscany, Umbria, northern Latium (the province of Rome), and Corsica; and clusters of dialects to the south, including Abruzzese-Neapolitan and Calabrian-Sicilian.
		The dialect of Lisbon vies with that of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil as the standard form of Portuguese taught in North American schools and as the model for the language.
	www.brazilbrazil.com /roman.html (1233 words)

	Articles - Romance languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Romance languages have 2 or 3 genders for all nouns, but usually do not inflect nouns for case, though their parent Latin did.
		Romance languages include a default stress on the second-last syllable, and have euphony rules that avoid glottal stops, and multiple stop consonants in a row.
		Romance languages dropping the final vowel have one less syllable: the usual "penultimate syllable" accent is on the last syllable in these languages.
	www.1-helmets.com /articles/Romance_language (1963 words)

	portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With 199 million native speakers, Portuguese is the sixth most popular mother-tongue language in the world, and the second Romance language, outnumbered only by Spanish, and one of the few languages spoken all over the world.
		The language began to differentiate itself from other Romance languages after the fall of the Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions in the 5th century.
		For a long time the Romance dialect of that region evolved only as a spoken language.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Portuguese_language.html (5047 words)

	French language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French (français) is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese.
		Langue d'Oïl, the language where one says oïl (or nowadays oui) for "yes", is the group of dialects in the north of France which were the most affected by the Frankish invasions, like Picard, Walloon, Francien, Norman, etc. From the baptism of the Frankish king Clovis (c.
		Following a period of unification, regulation and purification, the French of the 17th to the 18th centuries is sometimes referred to as Classical French (français classique), although many linguists simply refer to French language from the 17th century to today as Modern French (français moderne).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_language (3646 words)

	Romance languages of Spain
		Romance languages are the result of the changes suffered by spoken Latin through the centuries.
		Hispanic Romance languages (except Mozarabic) were born in the North of the Peninsula and extended southwards along with the occupation by Christian kingdoms of lands formerly in hands of the Muslim.
		Dialects of this type are also spoken in the Canaries and in America (in northern dialects 'caza' and 'casa' are uttered differently; in the southern ones their pronunciation is the same).
	www.geocities.com /msanzledesma/rom_i1.htm (1164 words)

	Bambooweb: French language
		The French language is a Romance language, meaning that it is descended from Latin.
		With the Norman conquest of England in 1066 the Normans brought their Norman language to England; the dialect which developed in the Norman realms as a language of administration and literature is referred to as Anglo-Norman.
		In the Savoie region of France, Franco-Provençal (a dialect considered halfway bewteen Langue d'Oc and Langue d'Oïl) was spoken.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/f/r/French_language.html (2420 words)

	Wir Ain Leid - Language or Dialect?
		Dialects often being thought of as being some kind of erroneous deviation from the norm - an aberration of the 'proper' or standard form of language.
		An example of such a dialect continuum is the Romance dialect continuum stretching across the Iberian peninsula through France and parts of Belguim down to the southern tip of Italy.
		Low Saxon is often regarded as a dialect of Dutch on the Netherlands and a dialect of German in Germany.
	www.scots-online.org /grammar/lang.htm (1704 words)

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		Castilian is an Ibero-Romance dialect, originating in north-central parts of the Iberian peninsula (Castilla Vieja or Old Castile), on the basis of which developped the Standard Spanish language.
		In this context Castilian gradually replaced most of the other Romance languages in the Kingdom (see Asturian, Catalan, Galician) and developped local varieties (dialects), in which elements of those languages were retained as a substratum.
		The most striking dialectal feature in the consonant system is the ‘assibilated r’, which is common in the speech of north central and north-western areas of Spain (Alava, La Rioja, Navarre, Aragon).
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Spanish-Castilian/Castilian.htm (972 words)

	List of Romance Languages & Dialects with Number of Speakers and Areas of Distribution
		Pallarese and Ribogorcan dialects are less similar to standard Catalan, speakers have less education, less contact with the standard, and live in high valleys of the Pyrenees.
		Dialects of Bastia, Venaco, Vico, and Sartene have 79% to 89% lexical similarity.
		Cagliaritan is the dialect of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia.
	www.orbilat.com /General_Survey/List_of_Romance_Languages.html (3673 words)

	Romance languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Romance languages''', also called '''Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialectdialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire.
		Romance languages have 2 or 3 grammatical gendergenders for all nouns, but usually do not inflectioninflect nouns for case, though their parent latin languageLatin/ did.
		Romance languages include a default lexical stressstress on the second-last syllable, and have ''euphony'' rules that avoid glottal stops, and multiple stop consonant/s in a row.
	www.infothis.com /find/Romance_languages (2221 words)

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		Dhivehi -> language spoken in the Maldives and in the Minicoy Island of India Dusun -> language spoken by the Dusun tribe, one of the largest in North Borneo Dutch -> language spoken in the Netherlands and the provinces of East- and West-Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, and Flemmish-Brabant, Belgium Esperanto -> The International Language.
		Dialects of Farsi spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
		They have several dialects, but this is the main one, Northern Saami.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/usenet/news.answers/romance-faq/part3 (1232 words)

	Romance languages - InformationBlast
		The Romance languages are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire.
		Or rather a language, with Portuguese as a dialect of it (as some argue it is?) Naturally, political and cultural and local pride issues play a role in these debates.
		Latin and the Romance languages also give rise to numerous constructed languages, both International Auxiliary Languages (well-known examples of which are Interlingua and Latino sine flexione) and languages created for artistic purposes only (like Brithenig and Wenedyk).
	www.informationblast.com /Romance_languages.html (1304 words)

	French language - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With the imposition of a standardised chancery dialect and the loss of the declension system, the dialect is referred to as Middle French ("le moyen français").
		It is important however to realize that as of 1790, one half of the French population did not speak or understand French and that many other regional languages were spoken, and continue to be spoken as minority languages, in France.
		In the 1880s, the rise of French nationalism (via universal military service and national education) encouraged the suppression of regional differences and local dialects; by 1910, 90% of the French population understood French, although 50% still understood a local dialect.
	www.free-definition.com /French-language.html (2421 words)

	RMC: Rhaeto-Romance Collection
		The Rhaeto-Romance dialects constitute the seventh, albeit uncoalesced, Romance language.
		Romansch is one of Switzerland's four official languages; Friulano is the principal non-Italian dialect of the Friuli region, northeast of Venice, and has been a linguistic symbol of cultural expression in recent decades.
		Manuscript in the Upper Engadine dialect, which the Catalogue of the Rhaeto-Romanic Collection describes as a "collection of hymns, with words and music." The manuscript was written "in Chiamuoesch, l'anno 1838" and apparently owned by one Elias A. Manzinoia.
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /exhibits/info/rhaeto.htm (955 words)

	Romance languages - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire.
		Latin and the Romance languages also give rise to numerous constructed languages, both International Auxiliary Languages (well-known examples of which are Interlingua and Latino sine flexione) and languages created for artistic purposes only (such as Brithenig and Wenedyk).
		Some Romance languages form plurals by adding "s" (derived from Latin accusative case), while others form the plural by changing the final vowel - "o"/"e" to "i", or "a" to "e" (derived from Latin nominative case).
	www.free-definition.com /Romance-languages.html (1357 words)

	Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The language began to differentiate itself from other Romance languages after the fall of the Roman Empire andthe barbarian invasions in the 5th century.
		It started to be used in writtendocuments around the 9th century, and by the 15th century it had become a mature language with a rich literature.
		However, the population continued to speak Romance; so that when the Moors were expelled, the influence thatthey had exerted on the language was small.
	www.therfcc.org /portuguese-language-5447.html (4590 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - French language
		Langue d'Oïl, the language where one says "oïl" for "yes", are those dialects in the north of France which were the most affected by the Frankish invasions, like Picard, Walloon, Francien, Norman, etc. From the baptism of the Frankish king Clovis (c.
		In the 1880s, the rise of French national sentiment (via universal military service and national education) encouraged the suppression of regional differences and local languages and dialects; by 1910, 90% of the French population understood French, although 50% still understood a local language or dialect.
		In the north-eastern regions are speakers of Alsatian (a Germanic language), and Flemish (a dialect of Dutch).
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/French_language (3464 words)

	Ethnologue: Italy
		Speakers are bilingual in Italian and regional Italian dialects in varying degrees; one report says they are highly bilingual.
		(BAYRISCH, BAVARIAN AUSTRIAN) [BAR] South Bavarian is in the Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Styria, including Heanzian dialect of Burgenland, Carinthia, northern Italy, and part of Gottschee in Slovenia; Central Bavarian is in the Alps and Lower Austria and Salzburg; North Bavarian in the north of Regensburg, to Nuremburg and Western Bohemia, Czech Republic.
		Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Ibero-Romance, North, Eastern.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Ital.html (1846 words)

	TTHA: Resources Page
		The vitality of the dialect in the face of the wear and tear of nearly a thousand years is extraordinary; the purity of its main derivation from the Saxon is undoubted, there being scant intermixture of Latin and Norman words.
		Its picturesque and homely virility is remotely akin to the language of the unrevised edition of the Bible, the kinship being strengthened not only by the use of words now archaic, but by occasional similarity in sentence construction.
		Rare instinct is shown in the treatment of the dialect in the Wessex novels; an absolute reproduction of it would have been impossible as a generally intelligible literary medium, and Mr.
	www.yale.edu /hardysoc/Resources/glossary.htm (677 words)

	French language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The French language is a Romance languagesRomance dialect, meaning that it is descended from Latin.
		The dialect that developed there as a language of administration and literature is referred to as Anglo-Norman languageAnglo-Norman.
		In the north-eastern regions are speakers of Alsatian languageAlsatian (a Germanic languagesGermanic language), and Flemish (a dialect of Dutch languageDutch).
	www.infothis.com /find/French_language (3698 words)

	Franco-Provencal dialect -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Northeast of the Occitan region, along the French, Swiss, and Italian frontiers, is located a group of dialects that historically have shared most vowel developments with languages to the south and many consonant changes with those to the north.
		French prose and verse romances were popular in Italy from the 12th to the 14th century.
		Though it is quite clear which languages can be classified as Romance, on the basis primarily of lexical (vocabulary) and morphological (structural) similarities, the subgrouping of the languages within the family is less straightforward.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9035151 (761 words)

	History of French Languages (continued)
		Highly fragmented dialect situation, with limited intelligibility between northern and southern varieties.
		Lafitte states that Navarro-Labourdin is the literary dialect used in writing by the majority of Basque writers in France.
		Souletin is more diverse and speakers have difficulty understanding other dialects, especially for complex and abstract discourse.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Language/DF_languages.shtml (2002 words)

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