Italian

In Italian (ital. Lingua italiana, Italiano) is a language from the Romanesque branch of the indogermanischen languages. Within the Romanesque languages the Italian belongs to the group of the italoromanischen languages. Under the big Romanesque languages the Italian language to the Latin in Lautung and vocabulary stands Second next one, into Roumanian.
In Italian is spoken from about 70 million people as a mother tongue or the second mother tongue on whom the biggest part lives in Italy., Among the rest, as a Zweitsprache or foreign language it speak the Sardinians, the Friauler, the Ladiner, the German-speaking inhabitants of South Tirol, the Albanian minority and other ethnic groups like the Slovenes in the hinterland of Monfalcone and Trieste.

In Italian officialese is in the following states:

    * Italy (about 55 million native speakers)
    * Switzerland (about 450,000 native speakers, in Italian Switzerland, but also many migrants in the rest of Switzerland)
    * San Marino
    * Vatican City

Beyond these countries the Italian language is spoken in the following regions:

    * France:
          * In the French Département Alpes-Maritimes and his capital of Nice
    * Principality Monaco
    * Slovenia (Koper/Primorska)
    * Croatia (Istrien and Dalmatia). In particular old people are still often bilingual here.

Other countries with important Italian population:

    * Australia
    * Belgium
    * Germany
    * Malta
    * Austria
    * The United States
    * Great Britain

    * In Somalia and Eritrea Italian serves beside the English as a Handelssprache.
    * In addition, several Italian-speaking enclaves also exist in America, above all in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. In Buenos Aires developed temporarily Cocoliche, a Mischsprache with the Spanish, strongly.

Besides, Italian words flowed in onto different terminologies, e.g., in the music, design, technology, kitchen or in the banking.