Have you ever watched a movie in another language and tried to understand what was being said? If you have tried and your first language is English some different languages can be quite hard to pick up on. One of the languages that I find hard to pick up on is the Italian language. While the Italian language and the English Language both contain 26 alphabet letters Italian does not use every letter as often as Americans. In fact so Italians argue that there are only 21 letters in the Italian alphabet. The letters j, k, w, x and y are considered foreign and are only used in import words. Italian learners may misspell dictated words containing the English letters r and e, which sound like Italian letters a and i. Some words that are capitalized in English (days, months, languages, etc) are not capitalized in Italian. There are obviously some major differences between the two languages. .
Most Italian words end with a vowel. The exception to not ending with a vowel is prepositional words and the Italian words that are not really Italian but foreign words. .
As of 2013 over 64 million people throughout the world were reported to speak the Italian language. .
How did this language start? The language began to develop shortly after the Italian evolution around the 10th century. The first Italian documents that were wrote were dialectal in language, and many writers following wrote in their native dialects, which produced a number of competing regional schools of literature. .
The first document in Italian is called the "Vernacular Italian," or "Placito Cassinese." It was a document that was written by a man about a land ownership and talked about the fight which had broke out over the land. The fight was over whether the land belonged to the Benedictine friars of the Abbey or the liege lord of a nearby fief. The document is quite known and reads, "Sao ko kelle terre, per kelle fini que ki contene, trenta anni le possette parte Sancti Benedicti.
