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Italian is a leid spoken bi aboot 70 million fowk, maistly fowk frae Italy, frae whaur it gets its name. It is an ofeecial leid in Italy, San Marino, Vatican Ceety, Swisserland an in some ceeties o Slovenie an Croatie. It is uised in some pairts o Monaco, Maltae, Albanie, Dodecaneso (Greece), Eritrea, Libie, Ethiopie, Somalie, Tunisie, Slovenie, Croatie an some ither places an aw.
| Italian | |
|---|---|
| Italiano, Lingua italiana | |
| Pronunciation | [itaˈljaːno] |
| Native tae | Italy, Swisserland, San Marino, Vatican Ceety, Istrie Coonty (Croatie) an Slovene Istrie (Slovenie) |
| Region | Italy, Ticino an soothren Graubünden, Slovene Littoral an wastren Istrie |
Native speakers | 69 million native speakers in the EU[1] (c.2012)[2] 90 million total speakers L2 speakers: 24 million |
| Laitin (Italian alphabet) Italian Braille | |
Signed forms | Italiano segnato "(Signed Italian)"[3] italiano segnato esatto "(Signed Exact Italian)"[4] |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |  Italy San Marino Switzerland Vatican City
|
Recognised minority leid in | |
| Regulatit bi | Accademia della Crusca (de facto) |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | it |
| ISO 639-2 | ita |
| ISO 639-3 | ita |
| Glottolog | ital1282[10] |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-q |
Main leid
Used offeecially in the Italian colonial period; nou seicontary
Lairge Italian-speakin commonties | |
It is maistly derived frae Laitin, wi some wirds frae Greek, Etruscan an ithergates. It is cried an inflectit leid - that means that the meanin o wirds can be chynged bi chyngin their endins. Italian noons is aither masculine or feminine (thir's grammatical terms, for ordinar anerly indirect adae dae wi gender).
Maist singular masculine noons ends in -o, an maist plural masculine noons ends in -i.
Maist singular feminine noons ends in -a, an maist plural feminine noons ends in -e.
Sae - gatto = male cat, gatta = female cat, gatti = male cats, gatte = female cats
The endin o verbs is awfu complicate, acause they lippen on the tense o the verb (past, praisent, futur an sae on) an on the person o the verb (A, ye , thay etc).[11]
Frae that - parlo = A speak, parliamo = we speak, parlava = he wis speakin, parlarono = thay spak, parlerò = A will speak, parliamo = lat's speak!
There's gey mony o thir endins tae learn - it is a difficult pairt o Italian. But soondin is semple - there's anerly a puckle rules tae learn, an haurdly ony difficult soonds.
Mony Italian wirds haes entered the Scots leid. Pizza, spaghetti an ravioli is juist some o the fuid wirds that we uise. Mony technical wirds in muisic is Italian, sic as forte an allegro. Mony muisical instruments' names air Italian an aw, sic as cello an tuba. Frae the daurker side o Italian life we get Mafia an vendetta.
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