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Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian has retained the contrast between short and long consonants which existed in Latin. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. Of the Romance languages, Italian is considered to be the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary. Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 78% with Rhaeto-Romance,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=14708 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian has retained the contrast between short and long consonants which existed in Latin. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. Of the Romance languages, Italian is considered to be the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary. Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 78% with Rhaeto-Romance,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=14708 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | ||
<tr><td><h2>Location of Italian Language Speakers</h2> | <tr><td><h2>Location of Italian Language Speakers</h2> | ||
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2> | <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2> |
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