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12th | During what century did Florentine Tuscan begin to be used in poetry? |
upper class | What socioeconomic class used the Florentine Tuscan language in Dante's time? |
Tuscany | From what region of Italy did Florentine Tuscan derive? |
Alessandro Manzoni | What Italian nationalist spoke of the importance of a national Italian language? |
the Risorgimento | During what period was the importance of having an Italian national language raised? |
1860s | In what decade was Italy unified? |
2.5% | What percentage of Italians spoke standard Italian when Italy was first unified? |
standard Italian | When Italy was unified, what was named the official national language? |
World War I | During what war did a large number of Italian men first learn standard Italian? |
television | Along with radio and public education, what invention helped to diffuse standard Italian among the Italian population? |
lower | In modern Italy, what class of people are regional languages sometimes associated with? |
outside of one's region | Along with formal settings, where do some Italians avoid speaking their regional language? |
at home with family | Aside from when they're speaking to Italians from their same town or region, where is a common place where Italians speak their regional language? |
standard Italian | Regional Italian dialects are often influenced by regional languages and what other language? |
Italo-Dalmatian | What language family do most of the languages of Italy belong to? |
Latin | What language are most languages of Italy derived from? |
Romance | Aside from Italo-Dalmatian, what is another term for the group that Italian languages belong to? |
The Sardinian language | Campidanese Sardinian is a variant of what language? |
Italian Tuscan | What language is Sassarese closely related to? |
Italo-Dalmatian | What language family does Gallurese belong to? |
Gallo-Romance | What language family does Ligurian belong to? |
Sardinian | Where is the Catalan Algherese dialect spoken? |
American English | Along with British English, what is the major variant of the English language? |
Serbian and Croatian | What are the two major variants of Serbo-Croatian? |
dialects of a single language | Are British and American English regarded as distinct languages, or dialects of a single language? |
distinct languages | Do regional linguists treat Serbian and Croation as distinct languages or as dialects of a single language? |
the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies | Why are Serbian and Croatian often treated like distinct languages? |
Bulgarian | Along with Serbian, with what language is Macedonian mutually intelligible? |
South Slavic | What dialect continuum does Macedonian belong to? |
a Bulgarian dialect | What do Bulgarian linguists regard the Macedonian language as? |
1944 | In what year was a Macedonian literary standard established? |
Republic of Macedonia | In what country is Macedonian most commonly spoken? |
Christian | Lebanese people of what religion sometimes consider Lebanese to be a distinct language? |
Arabic | In what language are Lebanese laws written? |
Lebanese Arabic | During the Lebanese Civil War, what language did Lebanese Christians sometimes use officially? |
Arabic | What language is Lebanese closely related to? |
Latin | What script did Lebanese Christians sometimes use to write Lebanese Arabic during the civil war? |
Algeria | Along with Morocco and Tunisia, in what country are the Darijas spoken? |
Literary Arabic | What is the liturgical language of Islam? |
Literary Arabic | In what language is the Qur'an written? |
spoken North African languages | What does the term Dariajs refer to? |
Islam | What is the dominant religion of North Africa? |
19th | During what century did the Russian government claim that Ukrainian was a Russian dialect? |
the Tsarist Government | What Russian government claimed that Ukrainian was not a distinct language? |
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | The conquest of western Ukraine by what country altered the language of Ukraine? |
The German Empire | What nation conquered Ukraine during the First World War? |
the Entente | What alliance defeated the German Empire in World War I? |
Bolsheviks | What Ukrainian political group was involved in the defeat of the German Empire? |
Whites | Who did the Ukrainian Bolsheviks conquer the Ukraine from? |
World War II | After what war did Moscow begin to repress the Ukrainian language? |
Ukrainian collaborationism with the Axis powers | Why did Moscow begin to repress the Ukrainian language? |
to gain independence | Why did Ukrainians collaborate with the Axis? |
Ukraine | In what country is the Surzhyk dialect spoken? |
Russian | Surzhyk is a dialect intermediate between the Ukrainian language and what other language? |
Mircea Snegur | Who was the president of Moldova in 1996? |
2003 | In what year was a Moldovan-Romanian dictionary published? |
Romanian expansionism | Fear of what caused the Moldovan parliament to reject changing the name of the country's language to Romanian in 1996? |
Ion Bărbuţă | Who was the head of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova? |
logograms | From what did Chinese characters derive? |
Cantonese | What is another name for the Yue language? |
the south | Hakka is a language from what geographic part of China? |
Beijing | From the time of the Ming dynasty, what city was the capital of China? |
Standard Mandarin | At its founding. what was the official language of the Republic of China? |
Latin | From the perspective of historical linguists, what are Romance languages dialects of? |
Ancient Greek | What do many historical linguists consider modern Greek to be a dialect of? |
Old Norse | From what language is North Germanic derived? |
English | Tok Pisin might be regarded as a dialect of what language? |
Spanish | Italian is significantly mutually comprehensible with what other Romance language? |
French | With what romance language does Spanish not have a high degree of mutual comprehensibility? |
French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change | What is the reason for French and Italian not being very mutually comprehensible? |
avere | What Italian word is similar to the French word "avoir"? |
être | What French word is similar to the Italian word "essere"? |
Italian and Spanish | What two languages have the possibility for significant mutual intelligibility? |
body parts | Along with foods and family relationships, what sorts of words are similar in French and Italian? |
sere | When forming compound tenses in Spanish, what auxiliary is no longer used? |
Interlingua | What language could all Western languages be considered dialects of? |
International Auxiliary Language Association | Researchers at what organization study and develop Interlingua? |
Swedish | What was the nationality of high school students who learned Interlingua in a notable linguistic experiment? |
Portuguese | Along with Italian and Spanish, what language could Swedish Interlingua learners translate? |
the international scientific vocabulary | Along with Standard Average European, from what concept was Interlingua derived? |
the Classical period | What term is used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820? |
1400–1600 | What years are termed the Renaissance period? |
1600–1750 | What years are termed the Baroque period? |
Romantic | From 1804-1910 was called what era? |
Western music | Classical music is rooted in what kind of tradition? |
Western | Classical music is rooted the the traditions of what kind of music? |
the Classical period | What is the period from 1750 to 1820 called? |
between 1550 and 1900 | What time period is known at the common practice period? |
1400–1600 | When was the Renaissance era? |
1890–1930 | When was the modern era? |
its system of staff notation | How is European art music distinguished from non-European and popular music? |
Western staff notation | What method is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitches, tempo, meter and rhythms for a piece of music? |
jazz and blues | What popular styles practice improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation? |
complexity | Since it is written down, classical music can attain a high level of what? |
its system of staff notation | How is European art music distinguished from many other musical forms? |
since about the 16th century | How long has the system of staff notation been in use? |
improvisation | Jazz and blues use ad libitum and what other ornamentation? |
complexity | Classic music can a attain a high level of what? |
the early 19th century | When did the term "classical music" appear? |
the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven | What period is referred to as a "golden age"? |
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