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terminology Italian Sign Language List of languages of Italy
|Literature and other| Italian grammar is the body of rules
describing the properties of the Italian language. Italian words
can be divided into these lexical categories: article, noun,
adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and
interjection. |Masculine||Singular||il/lo||Lo before s +
consonant, z, gn, ps, pn, x, y and consonant clusters
(disregarding sonorants), l' before a vowel, otherwise il. Note
lo iodio ("the iodine"), lo Ionio (the Ionian Sea) where the
initial i represents a semiconsonant; on the other hand, it is
usual to employ l' before semiconsonantic u (pronounced /w/) in
mobile diphthongs: l'uomo "the man", l'uovo "the egg" . However,
foreign words beginning with w and used in Italian, like West
(referring to the American Old West) and whisky, are usu