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	Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian has retained the contrast between short and long consonants which existed in Latin. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. Of the Romance languages, Italian is considered to be the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary. Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 78% with Rhaeto-Romance,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=14708 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>		Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian has retained the contrast between short and long consonants which existed in Latin. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. Of the Romance languages, Italian is considered to be the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary. Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 78% with Rhaeto-Romance,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=14708 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
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	<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>		<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>

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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Italiano,Italian

<b>Description:</b>

Italian ( italiano (help·info), or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City. Standard Italian, adopted by the state after the unification of Italy, is based on Tuscan (in particular on the dialects of the city of Florence) and is somewhat intermediate between the Italo-Dalmatian languages of the South and the Gallo-Romance Northern Italian languages. Its development was also influenced by the other Italian dialects and by the Germanic language of the post-Roman invaders but first and foremost it has been directly and heavily influenced by Latin.
Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian has retained the contrast between short and long consonants which existed in Latin. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. Of the Romance languages, Italian is considered to be the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary. Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 78% with Rhaeto-Romance,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=14708 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Italian Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ita_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ita_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ita_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ita_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ita_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ita_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ita_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ita_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/italy Italy]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Countries: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/italy Italy], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/switzerland Switzerland], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/san_marino San Marino], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/vatican_city Vatican City], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/holy_roman_empire Holy Roman Empire]
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>it</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>ita</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Indo-European Group]]

    [[Italic Group]]

      [[Romance Group]]

        [[Italo-Western Group]]

          [[Italo-Dalmatian Group]]

            <b>[[Italian Language]]</b>

              [[Tuscan dialect]]

              [[Parmesan Dialect]]

              [[Versilian dialect]]

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