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Indian rupee symbol in graphic form. The new sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter र ("ra") and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar. The parallel lines at the top (with white space between them) makes an allusion to the tricolour Indian flag and also depict an equality sign that symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.
Prior to these Italian films, the highest-grossing Italian film was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1997). This remains the highest-grossing Italian film worldwide with a gross of over $230 million. [1] Of the current top 20, Titanic has the most admissions with 13.7 million, which ranks 12th all-time in Italy.
Italian, as the third Swiss national language, is spoken in Italian-speaking Switzerland (Ticino and the southern part of Grisons).It is an official language both at the federal level and in the two cantons mentioned.
Examples of Italian diminutive words used in English are mostly culinary, like spaghetti (plural diminutive of "spago", meaning "thin string" or "twine"), linguine (named for its resemblance to little tongues ("lingue", in Italian)), bruschetta and zucchini.
This is a list of the number-one hits of 2003 on FIMI's Italian Singles and Albums Charts. Issue date Song Artist Album Artist 3 January "Feel" Robbie Williams:
Issue date Song Artist Album Artist 4 January "Bad Romance" Lady Gaga: Tracks 2 (inediti & rarità) Vasco Rossi: 11 January "Baciami ancora" Jovanotti: 18 January 25 January 1 February
In Old English and Middle English, any ng sequence stood for two sounds: the velar nasal [] followed by the voiced velar stop [].The velar nasal did not have a phonemic status, being a mere allophone of /n/, as in Spanish or Italian (or as in Modern Standard English in words such as Bengali or Vancouver, where there is a free variation between an alveolar nasal and a velar nasal).
A process more common in Old English than in Modern English, but still productive in Modern English, is the use of derivational suffixes (-hood, -ness, -ing, -ility) to derive new words from existing words (especially those of Germanic origin) or stems (especially for words of Latin or Greek origin).