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The line runs through northern Italy, from the cities of La Spezia to Rimini. North and west of the line, the plural of nouns was drawn from the Latin accusative caseThe accusative case of a noun is, generally, the case used to mark the direct object of a verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions. The accusative case exists (or existed once) in all the Indo-European la, and usually ends in -s regardless of grammatical genderIn linguistics, grammatical genders also called noun classes are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few which belong to several classes at once. Source of d or declensionIn linguistics, declension is a feature of inflected languages: generally, the alteration of a noun to indicate its grammatical role. In inflected languages, nouns are said to decline into different forms, or morphological cases . Morphological cases are. South and east of the line, the plurals of nouns were usually taken from the Latin nominative caseThe nominative case is a grammatical case for a noun. Some writers on English use the term subjective case instead of nominative, in order to draw attention to the differences between the "standard" generic nominative and the way it is used in English., and change the vowelIn phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract. The word vos to form the plurals. Compare the plurals of cognateCognates are words that have a common origin Examples of cognates are the words night (English), nacht ( German), noc ( Czech), noche ( Spanish), nuit ( French) and notte ( Italian), all meaning night and all deriving from a common Indo-European origin. nouns in Italian and Spanish:

Another isogloss that falls on the La Spezia-Rimini line deals with the voicingPhoneticians define phonation as "use of the laryngeal system to generate an audible source of acoustic energy, i. sound, which can then be modified by the articulatory actions of the rest of the vocal apparatus. A voiced sound is produced when the vocal of certain consonantA consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract. The word consonant comes from Latin meaning "sounding with" or "sounding together", the idea being that consonants dos that occur between vowels. Thus, Latin focus/focum (meaning "fire") becomes fuoco in Italian, but fuego in Spanish. Voicing, softening, or loss of these consonants is characteristic of the western branch of Romance; their retention is characteristic of eastern Romance. Instability of short vowels is also a trait of western Romance; as shown above, Latin lupus/lupum becomes lobo in Spanish, showing both voicing and the merger of short Latin /u/ and /o/, while in Italian the short /u/ is preserved. Generally speaking the western Romance languages show common innovations that the eastern Romance languages tend to lack.