ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Italian is a Romance language. Italian, together with Sardinian, is by most measures the closest language to Vulgar Latin of the Romance languages.italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (where it is the first language in Canton Ticino and in the districts of Moesaand Bernina in Canton Graubünden), San Marino and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). It formerly had official status in Albania, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro (Kotor) and Greece (Ionian Islands and Dodecanese), and is generally understood in Corsica (also due to the similarities with the Corsicanlanguage) and Savoie. It also used to be an official language in the former Italian East Africa and Italian North Africa, where it plays a significant role in various sectors. Italian is also spoken by large expatriate communitiesin the Americas and Australia.In spite of not existing any Italian community in their respective national territories and of not being spoken at any level, Italian is included de jure, but not de facto, between the recognized minority languages of Bosnia-Herzegovina(along with 14 more languages) and Romania(together with 19 other languages).Many speakers of Italian are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages.

 
            
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