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French vs Italian vs Spanish vs Portuguese vs Chinese
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[Celtiberians: Problems and Debates by Francisco Burillo Mozota http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/index.html ]
When the Romans conquered the Gauls in Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy), was there a substantial remnant of Celts in Northern Italy after they were conquered? I believe it was the Roman historian Strabo who proclaimed that the entire Po Valley was virtually devoid of Celts after they were couquered in 191 B.C. I believe it was Strabo who said that the Boiian Gauls left the region of what is now Bologna, Modena , and Parma, and when they left, they emigrated to Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic. There is a lot of evidence that reveals that the Romans heavily colonized Cisalpine Gaul by a process known as Centuriation, but I've also read that a significant amount of Gauls remained after they were conquered by Rome. Can anybody tell me what the truth is regarding this matter?
The language that we use internationally is determined by economic factors and the dominance of a particular country at a given time. Also, web technology is driving "communication" and the language we use. Currently the USA; its influence on the Web and IT generallly has put English at the fore. I was on holidays in France recently, and whilst the French (and rightly so) are very protective of their culture and langauge, I found French people switching to Engish more liberally than in the past, and indeed quite keen to continue conversation in English or quasi-English. It is obvious that multi-media, digital technology, primarily sourced from the English speaking world is having a dominant effect globally. Something I am not in favour of.
Brennus,
Excuse me but your knowledge of geography looks funny, the Alps aren't in the East-central of France except if you consider Nice for being in East-Central for example....
In the far north of Italy (the Alpine valleys), The Celts continued to live on. But as far as the lower elevations (Po Valley) it seems that those lands were heavily colonized by the Romans when you consider numerous evidence of Roman Centuriation especially south of the Po River.
''Except the consonant ñ, that is the same as Portuguese nh and French ng, and is considered of Celtic origin, no other Spanish language has the same nasal vowels. '' (by Gringo)
Gringo, please get updated. NH is, in Brazilian Portuguese (90% of all speakers of Portuguese) pronounced as a NASAL GLIDE (that is Y as in English word YES said nasally). It it is a totally vocalic sound, it is not consonant like in French/Italian (gn) or Spanish ñ: tenho ['te~y~u] (both e and y said nasally) tem [te~y~] piranha [pi'rãy~a] Because NENHUM (none) and NEM UM (not a) are pronounced in the same way, many Brazilians have difficulties...When to write nenhum, when to write nem um. Both are pronounced [ne~y~ u~]. So, your statement that NH is pronounced like GN is French is not true. Thaïs Cristófaro Silva in ''Fonética e fonologia de Português'' and Mario Perini in ''Modern Portuguese'' strongly disagree with you.
According to some authors there are three ways of pronouncing NH in Brazil:
1) the nasal glide [y as in york, spoken nasally] 2) as the Spanish ñ , and gn in French/Italian) 3) the [n] + [y] sequence like (ni in onion) But, Jacyra what a surprise!Why do you say now that you speak Portuguese? You no longer speak Brazilian? And by the way, the comment was about Celtic influence in the Portuguese language not in Brazilian. Was there a celtic influence in Brazilian? You keep behaving like a saci.
Non ho l'età
Non ho l'età per amarti Non ho l'età per uscire sola con te E non avrei Non avrei Nulla da dirti Perché, tu sai Molte più cose di me Lascia che io viva Un amore romantico Nell' attesa Che venga quel giorno Ma ora no Non ho l'età Non ho l'età per amarti Non ho l'età per uscire sola con te Se tu vorrai Se tu vorrai Aspettarmi Quel giorno avrai Tutto il mio amore per te Lascia che io viva Un amore romantico Nell' attesa Che venga quel giorno Ma ora no Non ho l'età Non ho l'età per amarti Non ho l'età per uscire sola con te Se tu vorrai Se tu vorrai Aspettarmi Quel giorno avrai Tutto il mio amore per te
I adore Italians and the Italian language.Please keep your language in safe, from foreign words, and foreign nations.Because i love your languages intonation, stress, word structure.I also adore the pronunciation of the language.It's the best of all.ITALIAN IS THE BEST LANGUAGE EVER!!! I'm an American, don't like own language, though.I wish I were able to learn and speak the language perfectly.
TOFFEE
I'm so happy to hear what you said, as much as I know, most of the Americans generally like to learn Spanish as their 2nd language, but you're really one of the Americans who prefer Italian to Spanish. I adore Italian and Italian Culture very much, too.
vamo na pizzaria
First you have to learn to to spell your Portuguese name: "Vamos na pizaria". "I an Portuguese an I adoro Italian pizza" How many times I have to tell you, no, you are not Portuguese and you can not have pizza. Stop asking for people to give you pizza.
It all depends: Here in America the language dats most studied is spnish so i think thats the most important
i wish i had a different language as my first language rather than english
english its just so boring n the cutlture has no flavor in it trust me i kno..wen i went to a differet hispanic family they were soo cool it wasnt like the ordinary american english cutlture they were "caliente" specially the guuys GOD WHY COULDNT I BE BORN PUERTO RICAN, HISPANIC,, WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 |