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    Immigrant Communities: Americans Are of Italian Descent United States

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    While over 17 million Americans claim Italian descent, only around 1 million speak Italian at home. Italian language media still exists in the US. In Canada, Italian is the second most spoken non-official language, with over 660,000 speakers. In Australia, Italian is the second most spoken foreign language after Chinese, with 1.4% speaking it at home. Italian immigrants brought the language to South America as well, where it remains widely spoken, especially in Argentina.

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    While over 17 million Americans claim Italian descent, only around 1 million speak Italian at home. Italian language media still exists in the US. In Canada, Italian is the second most spoken non-official language, with over 660,000 speakers. In Australia, Italian is the second most spoken foreign language after Chinese, with 1.4% speaking it at home. Italian immigrants brought the language to South America as well, where it remains widely spoken, especially in Argentina.

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    While over 17 million Americans claim Italian descent, only around 1 million speak Italian at home. Italian language media still exists in the US. In Canada, Italian is the second most spoken non-official language, with over 660,000 speakers. In Australia, Italian is the second most spoken foreign language after Chinese, with 1.4% speaking it at home. Italian immigrants brought the language to South America as well, where it remains widely spoken, especially in Argentina.

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    Immigrant Communities: Americans Are of Italian Descent United States

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    Immigrant communities

    Although over 17 million Americans are of Italian descent, only a little over one million people in the United States speak Italian at home.[20] Nevertheless, an Italian language media market does exist in the country.[21] In Canada, Italian is the second most spoken non-official language when Chinese dialects are not combined, with over 660,000 speakers (or about 2.1% of the population) according to the 2006 Census.[22] In Australia, Italian is the second most spoken foreign language after the Chinese languages, with 1.4% of the population speaking it as their home language.[23] Italian immigrants to South America have also brought a presence of the language to the continent. Italian is the second most spoken language in Argentina after the official language of Spanish, with 1.5 million speaking it natively, and Italian has also heavily influenced the dialect of Spanish spoken in Argentina and Uruguay, Rioplatense Spanish.[3] Small Italian-speaking minorities on the continent are also found in Uruguay, Venezuela and Brazil.

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