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Italian Language

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Italian language

Italian: Majority of Italians now speak Italian, therefore regional dialects are used less and less. Two bilingual regions (Aosta Valley and Trentino Alto Adige) as well as some linguistic minorities.

Number of Italian Speakers: Principally in the Italian peninsula, southern Switzerland, San Marino, Sicily, Corsica, northern Sardinia, and on the northeastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, former Italian colonies (Somalia, Ethiopia, Tunisia and Libya), as well as in North and South America.

Italian Alphabet: Composed of 21 letters.

Italian Language History: Linguistically speaking, the Italian language is a member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.

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Italian Language Enriched by: Roman language.

Unique Features of Italian: In Italian, the endings of most words vary according to the way the words are used in a sentence. Verbs also vary depending on mood, who is acting, and whether the action is in the past, present, or future.

Italian language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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