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Interesting facts about the Italian language
Italian: official language of Italy (Europe)
Region: also spoken in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Eritrea, France, Germany, Israel, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA, Vatican State.
Alternate names: Italiano
Dialects: Tuscan, Abruzzese, Pugliese, Umbrian, Laziale, Central Marchigiano, Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano, Molisano. Piemontese and Sicilian are distinct enough to be separate languages. Venetian and Lombard are also very different. Neapolitan is reported to be unintelligible to speakers of Standard Italian. Northern varieties are closer to French and Occitan than to standard or southern varieties (Agard, N. Vincent). Lexical similarity 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 78% with Rheto-Romance, 77% with Rumanian.
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian.
Most Italians use varieties along a continuum from standard to regional to local according to what is appropriate. Possibly nearly half the population do not use Standard Italian as first language. Only 2.5% of Italy's population could speak standard Italian when it became a unified nation in 1861.
Language development Grammar. Bible: 1471–1985.
Also spoken in:
Croatia
Language name Italian
Population 70,000 in Croatia whose first language is Italian or Venetian (1998 Eugen Marinov). Population includes 30,000 ethnic Italian and 40,000 ethnic Croats and Istrian people. Ethnic population: 30,000 (1998).
Region Istria.
Language use Official language.
Eritrea
Language name Italian
Population A few monolinguals.
Language use Spoken as a second language.
France
Language name Italian
Population 1,000,000 in France (1977 Voegelin and Voegelin).
Language use Nearly all know French.
San Marino
Language name Italian
Population 25,000 in San Marino (2004).
Language use National language.
Slovenia
Language name Italian
Population 4,009 in Slovenia (1991 census).
Language use Official language.
Comments Acknowledged as autochthonous communities and protected by the constitution.
Switzerland
Language name Italian
Population 195,000 in Switzerland (1990).
Language use Official language. People in all of the Italian cantons speak Italian as first or second language. Used for education in Italian and Ticino (Lombard) speaking areas.
Vatican State
Language name Italian
Population 1,000 in Vatican State (2004).