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A Romance language spoken mainly in Italy, but also in Switzerland, San Marino and others. For non-linguistic questions about the Italian language, visit our sister site Italian Language Stack Exchange.

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How did Italian manage to stay (mostly) phonetically spelled despite its long written tradit...

This probably accounts for much of the belief that many people have that languages like Italian and Spanish are "more phonetic" than English. … So, even before all the historical changes, English writing was probably not "as phonetic" as languages which are more like Italian. …
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