Languages of Italy

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.

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

External links

• An interactive map of languages and dialects in Italy
• Ethnologue - Languages of Italy