Languages of Italy
From WOI Encyclopedia Italia
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.
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Languages spoken in Italy
Romance Languages
Gallo-Rhaetian
- French
- Franco-Provençal
- Valdôtain
- Faeto
Ibero-Romance
- Provençal language-Occitan language
- Alguerese Catalan
Gallo-Italian
- Piedmontese
- Lombard
- Ligurian
- Emiliano-Romagnolo
- Venetian
Rhaetian or Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian
- Dolomites Ladin
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)
Germanic Languages
- Standard German
- Cimbrian
- Walser German
- Bavarian
Albanian Languages
- Arbëreshë
Greek Languages
- Griko
Slavic Languages
- Molise Croat dialect
- Slovenian
Indo-Aryan Languages
- Rom
- Sinti
See also
- Demographics of Italy
- Italian dialects
- European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
