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en-wikipedia-org-3236		Italian language - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13026	1810	68	In contrast to the Gallo-Italic linguistic panorama of northern Italy, the Italo-Dalmatian Neapolitan and its related dialects were largely unaffected by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy mainly by bards from France during the Middle Ages, but after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods (and words) in poetry. According to many sources, Italian is the closest language to Latin in terms of vocabulary.[31] According to the Ethnologue, Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 80% with Portuguese, 78% with Ladin, 77% with Romanian.[10] Estimates may differ according to sources.[32][33] The following are some of the conservative phonological features of Italian, as compared with the common Western Romance languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Catalan).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3236.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3236.txt