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Italian
60.000.000 speakers
24 language specific characters
ISO 639 code: ita
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Non fare il cuculo se sei un usignolo.Non fare l’usignolo o il passero se sei un cane. Ma chiunque può produrre suoni. Noi siamo Underware.
Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, the Vatican City, Malta and Eritrea. There are also Italian speakers in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Canada, the USA and the UK.
The Italian language adopted by the state after the unification of Italy is based on Tuscan, which beforehand was a language spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was also influenced by other Italian languages and by the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders.
Italian is descended from Latin. Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latin's contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. Among the Romance languages, Italian is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary.
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wikipedia.org, omniglot.com, evertype.com & ethnologue.com