Adjective

Italian (comparative more Italian, superlative most Italian)

Positive Italian

Comparative more Italian

Superlative most Italian

  1. Pertaining to Italy, its people or its language.

Noun

Singular Italian

Plural Italians

Italian (plural Italians)

  1. An inhabitant of Italy, or a person of Italian descent.

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Fri Jan 8 18:24:52 2010

Italian ( italiano (help·info), or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by another 10 million Italian descendants in the world, making it spoken by a total of 70 million native speakers. It is also spoken by an additional 125 million people as a foreign language. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages, spoken mainly in the Swiss cantons of Grigioni and Ticino. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City. Standard Italian, adopted by the state after the unification of Italy, is based on Tuscan (in particular on the dialects of the city of Florence) and is somewhat intermediate between the Italo-Dalmatian languages of the South and the Gallo-Romance Northern Italian languages. Its development was also influenced by the other Italian dialects and by the Germanic language of the post-Roman invaders.

Italian derives diachronically from Latin, and is the closest national language to Latin. Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latin's contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. In particular, among the Romance languages, Italian is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary. Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 78% with Rhaeto-Romance and 77% with Romanian.

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Thu Feb 4 01:31:16 2010

How did the nation of Italy form and how did the Italian language form?
Q. Even though the regions of Italy didn't unify until the 1860s, how old is the Italian nation and how did the nation of Italy come into existence? How did the Italian language form and why does it sound a lot like Spanish when French doesn't sound at all like Spanish? What type of money was used in Italy before the lira?
Asked by Carrie Sutherland - Tue May 15 00:46:20 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Italy *still* doesn't have a single language. There's the same problem in Spain, but it's worse in Italy. Sicilian is not the same as spoken in Naples and neither is the same as the Italian of Rome, etc. It's not like comparing USA's Chesapeake Bay to Gulf coast, it's almost like comparing Seminole to Apache.
Answered by h_brida - Tue May 15 02:29:50 2007

How many people know the italian language?
Q. How many people can speak the italian language?
Asked by bambino_babe_27 - Mon May 7 21:26:25 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I do...I've been living in Italy almost 8 years now. I can speak, read, and write it...oh, and many native Italians can't tell I'm a foreigner either. =)
Answered by Mari76 - Wed May 9 04:50:15 2007

How is Kelp translated in to Italian language?
Q. Hi! How do I say Kelp in Italian? And do they sell it in the supermarkets in Italy?
Asked by Heafelomins - Sat Oct 13 08:39:32 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. alghe They probably have it in the larger markets in the bigger cities
Answered by whiskeyman510 - Sat Oct 13 08:48:20 2007

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  • Learn How To Speak ItalianLearn How To Speak Italian
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