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Name: Italian Type: Language Alternate Names: Italiano; Italo-Romance; Italienisch Spoken in: USA, Uruguay, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Libya, Tunisia, Australia, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Croatia, Philippines, Germany, Israel, Slovenia, Romania, San Marino, Vatican State, Brazil, Canada, Eritrea, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Puerto Rico, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina, Egypt Number of speakers: 55,000,000 in Italy. Population includes native bilinguals of Italian and regional varieties, who may use Italian as L2. Population total all countries: 61,696,677 (Ethnologue) Code: ita Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) Parent Language: Old Italian (1et) Child Dialects: Pugliese (ita-pug) Central Marchigiano; Other Italian Lects; Central Italian (ita-cen) Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano (ita-cic) Abruzzese (ita-abr) Umbrian (ita-umb) Tuscan; Tuscan-Corsican (ita-tus) Laziale (ita-laz) Molisano (ita-mol)