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1. www.britannica.com › topic › The-Divine-ComedyThe Divine Comedy | Dante, Poem, Summary, Characters, & Facts

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   2 days ago · Language and structure. Dante’s choice to write The Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin had a revolutionary impact on the development of the Italian language and on Western literature.

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     In Italian literature: Dante (1265–1321) >Paradiso.Each...

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     In Italian literature: Dante (1265–1321) …three cantiche, or...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CantoneseCantonese - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · IPA. v. t. e. Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.

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   What is a canto in the Divine Comedy?

   • The illustration depicts canto I of Inferno (The Divine Comedy). The basic structural component of The Divine Comedy is the canto. The poem consists of 100 cantos, which are grouped together into the three sections, or canticles: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

   The Divine Comedy | Dante, Poem, Summary, Characters, & Facts

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   What is the history of Chinese language?

   • Some scholars divide the history of the Chinese languages into Proto-Sinitic (Proto-Chinese; until 500 bc ), Archaic (Old) Chinese (8th to 3rd century bc ), Ancient (Middle) Chinese (through ad 907), and Modern Chinese (from c. the 10th century to modern times).

   Chinese languages | History, Characteristics, Dialects, Types, & Facts

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   When did language start?

   • According to this theory, language began when our ancestors started imitating the natural sounds around them. The first speech was onomatopoeic —marked by echoic words such as moo, meow, splash, cuckoo, and bang . What's wrong with this theory? Relatively few words are onomatopoeic, and these words vary from one language to another.

   Five Theories on the Origins of Language - ThoughtCo

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   When did the alphabet become a Cantonese language?

   • Systematic efforts to develop an alphabetic representation of Cantonese began with Protestant missionaries arriving in China early in the nineteenth century. Romanization was considered both a tool to help new missionaries learn the variety more easily and a quick route for the unlettered to achieve gospel-literacy.

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4. www.poetrypoets.com › what-is-cantos-in-poetryWhat Is Cantos In Poetry - Poetry & Poets

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   May 17, 2024 · The antiquity and popularity of cantos in poetry can be traced back to ancient Greece, where odes were crafted by prominent lyric poets such as Pindar, Sappho and Archilochus. In later times, cantos were used by pioneers of the Renaissance such as Dante Alighieri, who wrote his famous Divine Comedy in the form of three cantos.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Inferno_(Dante)Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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   6 days ago · Inferno at Wikisource. Inferno ( Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri 's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.

6. www.britannica.com › topic › Chinese-languagesChinese languages | History, Characteristics, Dialects, Types ...

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   May 13, 2024 · Some scholars divide the history of the Chinese languages into Proto-Sinitic (Proto-Chinese; until 500 bc ), Archaic (Old) Chinese (8th to 3rd century bc ), Ancient (Middle) Chinese (through ad 907), and Modern Chinese (from c. the 10th century to modern times). The Proto-Sinitic period is the period of the most ancient inscriptions and poetry ...

7. www.thoughtco.com › where-does-language-come-from5 Theories on the Origins of Language - ThoughtCo

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   6 days ago · Here are five of the oldest and most common theories of how language began. 1. The Bow-Wow Theory. According to this theory, language began when our ancestors started imitating the natural sounds around them. The first speech was onomatopoeic —marked by echoic words such as moo, meow, splash, cuckoo, and bang .

8. www.reddit.com › r › PIElandClasses and Families of Languages: Coining of IndoEuropean ...

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   Parody 😂 on the imaginary “original” ur-heimet or invented proto (P = 𓂆) homeland 🏡 of the fictional Indo-European (IE) people, aka PIE 🥧 land 🏝️, evidenced 🔍 by some bones 🦴 buried in Europe 🌏, and their reconstructed (*wret- + *ḱóm + *strew-) PIE 🗣️ language or ur-sprache (Schleicher, 102A/1853), originally hypothesized by William Jones (169A/1784 ...