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[[Italy]] currently has one national language: [[Italian language| Standard Italian]]. Many of the regional varieties of Italian spoken around the country are different enough from Standard Italian to be considered separate languages by most linguists and some speakers themselves, even though they are generally not standardized. Thus a distinction can be made between "[[Dialects_of_Italian|dialects of (Standard) Italian]]" and "dialects and languages of Italy". | [[Italy]] currently has one national language: [[Italian language| Standard Italian]]. Many of the regional varieties of Italian spoken around the country are different enough from Standard Italian to be considered separate languages by most linguists and some speakers themselves, even though they are generally not standardized. Thus a distinction can be made between "[[Dialects_of_Italian|dialects of (Standard) Italian]]" and "dialects and languages of Italy". | ||
Other languages spoken in Italy are completely unrelated to Standard Italian. | Other languages spoken in Italy are completely unrelated to Standard Italian. | ||
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* [http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/lingua/bruni/mappe/mappe/f_dialetti.htm An interactive map of languages and dialects in Italy] | * [http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/lingua/bruni/mappe/mappe/f_dialetti.htm An interactive map of languages and dialects in Italy] | ||
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_country.asp?name=Italy Ethnologue - Languages of Italy] | * [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_country.asp?name=Italy Ethnologue - Languages of Italy] | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:45, 7 August 2009
Italy currently has one national language: Standard Italian. Many of the regional varieties of Italian spoken around the country are different enough from Standard Italian to be considered separate languages by most linguists and some speakers themselves, even though they are generally not standardized. Thus a distinction can be made between "dialects of (Standard) Italian" and "dialects and languages of Italy". Other languages spoken in Italy are completely unrelated to Standard Italian.
Languages spoken in Italy
Romance Languages
Gallo-Rhaetian
- French
- Franco-Provençal
- Valdôtain
- Faeto
Ibero-Romance
Gallo-Italian
Rhaetian or Rhaeto-Romance
Italo-Dalmatian
- Tuscan (the base of modern Standard Italian)
- Italiano centrale (Central Italian)
- Umbrian
- Marchigiano
- Romanesco
- Laziale
- Inner Southern Italian
- Neapolitan
- Abruzzese
- Molisano
- Pugliese
- Calabrian and Outer Southern Italian
- Sicilian
Italkian
- Judeo-Italian or Italkian (Jewish language form, term coined in the mid-20th C. Spoken by the small minority of Jews in Italy.)
Sardinian
- Sardo campidanese
- Sardo logudorese
- Sassarese (considered by some authors as a variety of Corsican)
- Gallurese (considered by some authors as a variety of Corsican)