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    Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people primarily in Italy but also other countries. For a long time there was no standard written or spoken form of Italian and writers used their own regional dialects. In the 13th century, writers like Dante Alighieri popularized Tuscan dialect from Florence as a standard literary language. By the 14th century, Tuscan became used in political and cultural circles across Italy, though Latin remained the prominent literary language until the 16th century. Today, Tuscan dialect is known as Italian and is the official language of Italy, used for literature and media, though each region also has its own distinct dialects.

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    Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people primarily in Italy but also other countries. For a long time there was no standard written or spoken form of Italian and writers used their own regional dialects. In the 13th century, writers like Dante Alighieri popularized Tuscan dialect from Florence as a standard literary language. By the 14th century, Tuscan became used in political and cultural circles across Italy, though Latin remained the prominent literary language until the 16th century. Today, Tuscan dialect is known as Italian and is the official language of Italy, used for literature and media, though each region also has its own distinct dialects.

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    Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people primarily in Italy but also other countries. For a long time there was no standard written or spoken form of Italian and writers used their own regional dialects. In the 13th century, writers like Dante Alighieri popularized Tuscan dialect from Florence as a standard literary language. By the 14th century, Tuscan became used in political and cultural circles across Italy, though Latin remained the prominent literary language until the 16th century. Today, Tuscan dialect is known as Italian and is the official language of Italy, used for literature and media, though each region also has its own distinct dialects.

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    Italian Language

    Italian (italiano)
    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.talian first started to appear in written documents during the 10th
    century in the form of notes and short texts inserted into Latin documents
    such as lawsuits and poetry. For a long time there was no standard written or
    spoken language in Italy and writers tended to write in their own regional
    dialects. In northern Italy, which was often ruled by the French, French and
    Occitan were used as literary languages.
    During the 13th century such writers as Dante Alighieri (1265-1321),
    Petrarch and Boccaccio were influential in popularising their own dialect of
    Italian - the Tuscan of Florence (la lingua fiorentina) - as a standard literary
    language. By the 14th century the Tuscan dialect was being used in political
    and cultural circles throughout Italy, though Latin remained the pre-eminent
    literary language until the 16th century.The first grammar of Italian with the
    Latin title Regule lingue florentine (Rules of the Florentine language) was
    produced by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) and published in 1495.
    During the 15th and 16th centuries both Latin and Italian were used for
    technical and scientific texts. The Italian used was full of Latin words and over
    time Latin was used less and less as Italian became increasingly popular.
    Today the Tuscan dialect is known as Italian (Italiano) and is the offical
    language of Italy. It is the main language of literature and the media. Each
    region of Italy also has its own dialect, some of which are so distinct from
    standard Italian that they are mutually unintelligible. The Sicilian dialect for
    example, is sometimes regarded as a separate language and has a literary
    tradition older than Italian itself.
    Italian alphabet (alfabeto italiano)
    Aa
    a
    Nn
    enne

    Bb
    bi
    Oo
    o

    Cc
    ci
    Pp
    pi

    Dd
    di
    Qq
    cu

    Ee
    e
    Rr
    erre

    Ff
    effe
    Ss
    esse

    Gg
    gi
    Tt
    ti

    Hh
    acca
    Uu
    u

    Ii
    i
    Vv
    vi/vu

    Ll
    elle
    Zz
    zeta

    Mm
    emme

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