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unusual facts about Romance Languages


Ladin

Rhaeto-Romance languages, a group of languages in the Alps comprising the Friulian, Ladin and Romansh languages


Americana

In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.

Catalan verbs

This tense is quite unique among Romance languages, only shared with some Gascon and Aragonese (Benasque, Gistaín) dialects, and it seems to have existed in Catalan at least since the 13th century.

Friulian language

In Friulian as in other Romance languages, nouns are either masculine or feminine (for example "il mûr" ("the wall", masculine), "la cjadree" ("the chair", feminine).

Genoese dialect

Ligurian is listed by Ethnologue as a language in its own right, of the Romance branch, and not to be confused with the ancient Ligurian language.

German adjectives

No ending is applied otherwise: predicative adjectives, those in English separated from the noun by is or are, are not declined and are indistinguishable from adverbs, unlike in Romance and North Germanic languages.

Henry Alfred Todd

In 1910, with Raymond Weeks and other scholars, he founded the Romanic Review, the first learned review in English devoted entirely to the Romance languages.

Johannes Lucius

In his book Lucius pointed out the difference between the Romance and Slavic Dalmatia, the habits of the people and the cultural borderlines.

Krzysztof Warlikowski

He studied history, philosphy and Romance languages at Jagiellonian University and also philosophy, French language and literature at at École Pratique Des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne.

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.

Lu indialett di lu Uašt

Lu indialett di lu Uašt (the dialect of Vasto) is a Romance language spoken in the town of Vasto.

Northwestern Europe

However there's no longer a sharp distinction as Germanic languages or Romance Languages have at least co-official status in all of the traditionally Celtic polities and the region has a history of Protestantism that differentiates it from its Mediterranean Latin or Eastern European Slavic neighbors.


see also

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.

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.