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unusual facts about Romance languages



Trenta

Trenta means "thirty" in some of the Romance languages, including Italian and Catalan.


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Dale Saunders

E. Dale Saunders (1919-1995), American scholar of Romance languages and literature, Japanese Buddhism, classical Japanese literature, and East Asian civilization

George Nicolescu

In 1972 he gained admission to the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Romance Languages, French-Romanian section.

Georges Hausemer

Born on 1 February 1957 in Differdange, Hausemer studied journalism and romance languages in Salzburg and Mainz.

James Schevill

He was influenced by his father, Rudolph Schevill, who created and chaired the department of romance languages at UC Berkeley, and created the West Coast committee in defense of the Spanish republic at the request of his friends Pablo Casals and Fernando de los Rios.

Joseph Henry Reason

His dissertation, "An Inquiry Into the Structure, Style, and Originality of Chrestien's Yvain", was published as volume 57 of Studies in Romance Languages and Literature.

La Spezia–Rimini Line

The La SpeziaRimini Line (sometimes also referred to as the MassaSenigallia Line), in the linguistics of the Romance languages, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses that distinguish Romance languages south and east of the line from Romance languages north and west of it.

Latin influence in English

A portion of these borrowings come directly from Latin, or through one of the Romance languages, particularly Anglo-Norman and French, but some also from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish; or from other languages (such as Gothic, Frankish or Greek) into Latin and then into English.

Lino Pertile

Lino Pertile (born 1940) is an Italian linguist, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and a former House Master of Eliot House.

María Teresa Babín Cortés

She was also a university professor at the Department of Romance Languages in Hunter College of New York (1946–51), Associate Professor of Language and Literature at Washington Square College in New York.

Pedralba de la Pradería

Pedralba de la Praderia is rich in linguistic diversity, because three different Romance languages are spoken there: Spanish, Galician and Leonese.

Sissel Lie

She has been a professor of Romance languages and literature at the University of Trondheim since 1992.