Italian (italiano) – is a Romance language spoken predominately in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages.

 According to the statistics of Eurostat, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU (13% of the EU total population), first of all in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million (3%). Taking into account the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries (such as Switzerland and Albania) and in other parts of the world, the total number of speakers is above 85 million.

The language is spoken principally in the Italian peninsula, southern Switzerland, San Marino, Sicily, Corsica, northern Sardinia, and on the northeastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, as well as in North and South America. Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like the other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of the Latin spoken by the Romans.

During the long period of the evolution of Italian, many dialects sprang up. The multiplicity of these dialects and their individual claims upon their native speakers as pure Italian speech presented a considerable difficulty in the development of a commonly-accepted form of Italian. Italian first started to appear in written documents during the 10th century in the form of notes and short texts inserted into Latin documents such as lawsuits and poetry. During the 14th century the Tuscan dialect began to predominate, partially explained by the central position of Tuscany in Italy, and because of the aggressive commerce of its most important city, Florence (Firenze). Moreover, of all the Italian dialects, Tuscan departs least in morphology and phonology from classical Latin, and it therefore harmonizes best with the Italian traditions of Latin culture. Finally, Florentine culture produced the three literary artists who best summarized Italian thought and feeling of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance: Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio.

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