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19 de sept. de 2023 · Italy is home to 28 indigenous languages (and six non-indigenous) according to this count by Ethnologue. That’s right, those are languages , not dialects. Italians usually—and rather erroneously, in the eyes of many linguists—refer to Neapolitan and the others as i dialetti (the dialects).
6 de oct. de 2022 · Foreign Languages in Italy. This article wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t dedicate a paragraph to the foreign languages that entered the Peninsula and make up part of its culture’s rich tapestry. First of all, we have the Occitan language and Provencal, which are the languages spoken by communities in Val d’Aosta and Western Piemonte.
Language in Italy. Italian is the official language of Italy, and 93% of population are native Italian speakers. Around 50% of population speak a regional dialect as mother tongue. Many dialects are mutually unintelligible and thus considered by linguists as separate languages, but are not officially recognised.
Excerpt of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Purgatory. The official language of Italy is Italian, spoken by about 59,000,000 people, but regional languages do coexist with the standard language. Therefore, part of the population are native bilinguals of Italian and a regional language, and some of them may use Italian only as a second language.
Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language from Latin, together with Sardinian. Spoken by about 85 million people including 67 million native speakers (2024), Italian is an official language in Italy, San Marino, and Switzerland, and is the primary language of Vatican ...
When Italy was united in 1861 the decision was taken to make Tuscan the official language of the country. Within the Italian population, however, there were and always had been high rates of illiteracy , and this illiteracy continued predominantly in rural regions until the 1950s.
Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.): Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Vol. 1, 2000. Giacomo Devoto and Gabriella Giacomelli, I Dialetti delle Regioni d'Italia, Florence: Sansoni Editore, 1971 (3rd edition, Tascabili Bompiani, 2002). Enlaces externos. Wikimedia Commons alberga una galería multimedia sobre Lenguas de Italia. Ethnologue - Languages of Italy
