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1 day ago · A sign in Venetian reading "Here Venetian is also spoken" Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. Venetian is number 15. Venetian, [7] [8] wider Venetian or Venetan [9] [10] (łengua vèneta [ˈɰeŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, [11] mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
9 hours ago · For example, amās "you love" > ame > Italian ami; amant "they love" > *aman > Ital. amano. On the evidence of "sloppily written" Lombardic language documents, however, the loss of final /s/ in northern Italy did not occur until the 7th or 8th century, after the Vulgar Latin period, and the presence of many former final consonants is betrayed by the syntactic gemination ( raddoppiamento sintattico ) that they trigger.
9 hours ago · In what was described as "perhaps the most famous message in a bottle love story", [77] in March 1999 a green ginger beer bottle was dredged up by a fisherman off the Essex coast, the bottle containing an 84-year-old letter tossed into the English Channel on September 9, 1914, by British soldier Private Thomas Hughes days before he was killed in fighting in France. [33]
1 day ago · The letter g represents the sound /ɡ/ at the end of words and before the letters a, o, and u but represents the sound /dʒ/ (as the first sound in the English word gem) before the letters e and i. The letter n represents the phoneme /n/ , which is pronounced [ŋ] (as in the English word sing ) before the letters c and g when these represent velar plosives /k/ or /ɡ/ , as in banco [ˈbaŋko] , fungo [ˈfuŋɡo] .
9 hours ago · [citation needed] For many keepers there must also be a provision for an adequate heat source this has resulted in the marketing of heat and light "combination" products. [ citation needed ] Keepers should be careful of these "combination" light/ heat and UVa/b generators, they typically emit high levels of UVa with lower levels of UVb that are set and difficult to control so that animals can have their needs met.
9 hours ago · There are some examples of year numbers after 1000 written as two Roman numerals 1–99, e.g. 1613 as XVIXIII, corresponding to the common reading "sixteen thirteen" of such year numbers in English, or 1519 as X XIX as in French quinze-cent-dix-neuf (fifteen-hundred and nineteen), and similar readings in other languages.
9 hours ago · Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky [a] (UK: / ˌ d ɒ s t ɔɪ ˈ ɛ f s k i /, [1] US: / ˌ d ɒ s t ə ˈ j ɛ f s k i, ˌ d ʌ s-/; [2] Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский [b], romanized: Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj] ⓘ; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 [3] [c]), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist.
