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- Italian_language abstract "Italian (About this sound italiano [itaˈljaːno] or lingua italiana [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Italy, parts of Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City; as a second language in Albania, Malta, Slovenia and Croatia; by minorities in Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania and Somalia; and by expatriate communities in Europe, in the Americas and in Australia. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardised Italian and other regional languages. It is an official language in the European Union and one of the six official languages of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe along with English, Spanish, French, Russian and German. According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a native language by 65 million people in the EU (13% of the EU population), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million (3%). Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries (such as Switzerland and Albania) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million. Italian has been reported as the fourth or fifth most frequently taught foreign language in the world.In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is studied and learned in all the confederation schools and spoken, as a native language, in the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Graubünden (predominantly in Italian Grigioni) and by the Italian immigrants that are present in large numbers in German- and French-speaking cantons. It is also the official language of San Marino and Vatican City. It is co-official in Slovenian Istria and in Istria County in Croatia and is widely spoken in Malta and Albania. During the colonial period, Italian served as the official lingua franca in Italian North Africa (present-day Libya consisting of the colonies of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fazzan) and in Italian East Africa (consisting of the present-day countries of the Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia).The Italian language adopted by the state after the unification of Italy is based on Tuscan, which beforehand was a language spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was also influenced by other Italian languages and by the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders. Italian is descended from Latin. Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latin's contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. Among the Romance languages, Italian is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary.".
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- Italian_language languageFamily Italo-Dalmatian_languages.
- Italian_language languageFamily Romance_languages.
- Italian_language languageFamily Tuscan_dialect.
- Italian_language languageRegulator Accademia_della_Crusca.
- Italian_language spokenIn Istria_County.
- Italian_language spokenIn Italy.
- Italian_language spokenIn San_Marino.
- Italian_language spokenIn Slovene_Istria.
- Italian_language spokenIn Switzerland.
- Italian_language spokenIn Vatican_City.
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink American_Sign_Language.
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Article_(grammar).
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Assimilation_(linguistics).
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Association_football.
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Slovenia.
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Vatican_City.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Subject–verb–object_languages.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Catholic_Church.
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Contraction_(grammar).
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Cyprus.
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Design.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Digraph_(orthography).
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- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Divine_Comedy.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Doughnut.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Duchy_of_Benevento.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Ecuador.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink Edible_dormouse.
- Italian_language wikiPageWikiLink English_language.