The Italian language in Venezuela has been present since colonial times in the areas around Caracas and Maracaibo. The language is found in many idioms and words of Venezuelan Spanish.
Read more about Italian Language In Venezuela: History, Italian Language Teaching in Venezuela, List of Some Italian Words in Venezuelan Spanish
Famous quotes containing the words italian and/or language:
“Until recently the word fascist was considered shameful. Fortunately, that period has passed. In fact, there is now a reassessment of how much grandpa Benito did for Italy.”
—Alessandra Mussolini, Italian actor, politician, and medical student. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 19 (February 17, 1992)
“While you are divided from us by geographical lines, which are imaginary, and by a language which is not the same, you have not come to an alien people or land. In the realm of the heart, in the domain of the mind, there are no geographical lines dividing the nations.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)