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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Italian_languageItalian language - Wikipedia

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   Italian (italiano, Italian: [itaˈljaːno] ⓘ, or lingua italiana, Italian: [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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2. www.britannica.com › topic › Italian-languageItalian language | History, Grammar & Vocabulary | Britannica

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   Apr 19, 2024 · It is the official language of Italy, San Marino, and (together with Latin) Vatican City. Italian is also (with German, French, and Romansh) an official language of Switzerland, where it is spoken in Ticino and Graubünden (Grisons) cantons by some 666,000 individuals. Italian is also used as a common language in France (the Alps and Côte d ...

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   Where did the Italic language come from?

   • The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official language of ancient Rome, which conquered the other Italic peoples before the common era.

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   How did the Italian language develop?

   • The Italian language has developed through a long and gradual process, which began after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. Up until this moment, Latin had spread and had been imposed across the Empire as the ‘madre franca’, or the shared language.

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   What language is spoken in Italy?

   • Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino and is spoken fluently by the majority of the countries' populations. Italian is the third most spoken language in Switzerland (after German and French; see Swiss Italian ), though its use there has moderately declined since the 1970s.

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   What language was first written in Italy?

   • Early texts from Italy are written in dialects of the language that only later became standard Italian. Possibly the very first text is a riddle from Verona, dating from perhaps the 8th century, but its language is Latinized.

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4. www.thoughtco.com › history-of-the-italianThe History of the Italian Language - ThoughtCo

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   Jul 3, 2019 · In 1525 the Venetian Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) set out his proposals ( Prose della volgar lingua - 1525) for a standardized language and style: Petrarca and Boccaccio were his models and thus became the modern classics. Therefore, the language of Italian literature is modeled on Florence in the 15th century.

5. www.europassitalian.com › learn › historyHistory of the Italian Language - Europass

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   The Italian language has developed through a long and gradual process, which began after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. Up until this moment, Latin had spread and had been imposed across the Empire as the ‘madre franca’, or the shared language. After the fall of the Empire, vernacular and local forms of the language had an ...

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Italic_languagesItalic languages - Wikipedia

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   The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official language of ancient Rome, which conquered the other Italic peoples before the common era. [1]

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   Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language from Latin, together with Sardinian. Spoken by about 85 million people including 67 million native speakers (2024), Italian is an official language in Italy, San Marino, and Switzerland, and is the primary language of Vatican ...