There are many different influences on the Italian languages including French & Spanish and those 3 languages are called the romance languages rub off on each other and give each other influences but the main origin would be Latin.
Here are some ways many Latin words changed into Italian:
-us & -um becomes -o
servus & vinum becomes servo & vino
B's are pronounced like V's
Portabant becomes Portavano
Ending -m and -t dropped
eram & erat become ero and era
U's are rounded off to O's
Fabula becomes Favola
L's are dropped
claudere becomes chiudere
"au" is shortened to O or U
aurum becomes oro, audire becomes udire
N's before s+consonant clusters are dropped
transmittere becomes trasmettere
You can actually go through Latin derived words and, using some of these rules, find their Italian translations without even touching an translator!
Italian nation (not race) , Italian language.
60% of the English language has Latin origins
Italian, French and Spanish are the only ones I know of. There are also English words with Latin origins but the English language does not come from Latin. Also Portuguese and Romanian.
2000 years ago not the Italian language but the Latin language.
Italian is a great language! I am half Italian and half Portuguese and I love both of them! Let me tell Italians loveeeeeeeeeeeeee food!!!!! Christmas eve is always a big thing for them!So Italian is the language of food, you say?? ;)Italian is also the language of song.
No, although they both have Latin origins.
Brigita is an Italian equivalent of 'Bridgette'. It's pronounced 'bree-GHEE-tah'. The name traces its origins back to the Celtic language, where it means 'exalted one'.
Cristiana is an Italian equivalent of the English name "Christiana." The feminine proper name traces its origins back to the Latin christiana for "follower of Christ." The pronunciation will be "kree-STYA-na" in Pisan Italian.
Italian origins
Italian nation (not race) , Italian language.
No, Rojas is not an Italian last name. The surname instead traces its origins back to the Spanish language, with the English translation "reds." The pronunciation of the feminine plural adjective will be "RO-khas" in Spanish.
The Italians had Italian as their first language.
Italian language and literatute. :P
Tristano is an Italian equivalent of the English name "Tristan." The masculine proper name traces its origins back to the word Drust or Drustanus for "noise" in the ancient Celtic language called Common Brittonic by linguists and philologists. The pronunciation will be "tree-STA-no" in Italian.
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"Language" in English is lingua in Italian.
60% of the English language has Latin origins