Презентация на тему Italian language

and traditions.
From the Magna Graecia period to the 17th

century, the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula were at the forefront of Western culture, being the fulcrum and origin of Magna Graecia, Ancient Rome, the Roman Catholic Church, Humanism, the Renaissance and Baroque. I

unusual people

Italians last
The Italians have always been mobility, agility, temperament. They have a sign language, that is, when the Italian says, he says, not only your mouth, but with his hands.
Interesting Facts
The Italians there humorous saying about themselves: "If an Italian tie his hands behind his back, he can not speak."

of the Italian Language
Official

language - Italian, which is spoken by 93% of the population. 50% can also speak the regional dialect as their mother tongue. Many of them are not picky and are recognized by linguists as separate languages. But official status, they have not received. For example, in the northeast of Italy, about 600,000 people speak the "Friuli".
Italian language - the official language of Italy, the Vatican , San Marino and Switzerland . Recognized as the second official language in several districts of Croatia and Slovenia.
The Italian language has developed based on the Romance dialects of Italy, going back to Vulgar Latin. Literary Italian language is based on the Tuscan dialect, that is the region where the Etruscans lived previously. There was an opinion that especially the Tuscan dialect associated with Etruscan substrate , but now it is considered obsolete.

Features Italian.

Every language has its own characteristics, and the Italian language is no exception.
Phonetics and phonology
In the field of phonetics and phonology of the Italian language on the background of other Romance has a number of features. In the field of vocalism is a special development, called "Italian style" (in particular, the agreement between the Latin summary close vowel and long vowel average rise in upper-middle vowels lift). In the consonants for Italian language typical large enough conservatism: Reserved quantitative opposition, do not occur or occur sporadically processes weakening of intervocalic consonants.

From the history
The

roots of Italian folk go into Latin. The founders of the Italian language, researchers called Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante, who wrote in a widely distributed in the Renaissance Florentine dialect, which the adherents of classical Latin contemptuously called demotic, but it became the basis for the emergence of the modern Italian language. Nowadays Italian consistently among the five most popular languages ​​to learn and speak it Bole 70 million inhabitants of our planet. Compared to other European languages, Italian alphabet is very short - it only twenty-six letters, five of which are used only for the transmission of words borrowed from other languages.The sound of the Italian language is considered to be very smooth and mellifluous, because virtually all of the words in it ends vowel.