Italians | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-06

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00:03:11 1 Name
00:05:04 2 History
00:05:13 2.1 Roman era
00:10:06 2.2 The Middle Ages
00:13:21 2.3 Rise of the city-states and the Renaissance
00:16:37 2.4 The French Revolution and Napoleon
00:19:04 2.5 The Kingdom of Italy
00:21:48 2.6 The Italian Republic
00:22:50 3 Culture
00:25:56 4 Philosophy
00:30:31 5 Literature
00:32:20 6 Law and justice
00:33:47 7 Science and technology
00:38:51 8 Mathematics
00:42:08 9 Architecture
00:44:02 10 Music
00:48:30 11 Cinema
00:50:53 12 Sport
00:56:51 13 Ethnogenesis
01:00:22 13.1 Ancient history
01:01:16 13.2 Indo-European
01:02:56 13.3 Pre-Roman
01:09:03 13.4 Roman
01:12:08 13.5 Middle Ages and modern period
01:22:03 14 Italian diaspora
01:27:51 15 Autochthonous Italian communities outside Italy
01:30:57 16 See also



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The Italians (Italian: Italiani [itaˈljaːni]) are a Romance ethnic group and nation native to the Italian peninsula and its neighbouring insular territories. Most Italians share a common culture, history, ancestry or language. Legally, all Italian nationals are citizens of the Italian Republic, regardless of ancestry or nation of residence (in effect, however, Italian nationality is largely based on jus sanguinis) and may be distinguished from people of Italian descent without Italian citizenship and from ethnic Italians living in territories adjacent to the Italian Peninsula without Italian citizenship. The majority of Italian nationals are speakers of Italian, or a regional variety thereof. However, many of them also speak another regional or minority language native to Italy; although there is disagreement on the total number, according to UNESCO there are approximately 30 languages native to Italy (often misleadingly referred to as "Italian dialects").In 2017, in addition to about 55 million Italians in Italy (91% of the Italian national population), Italian-speaking autonomous groups are found in neighbouring nations: almost a quarter million are in Switzerland, a large population is in France, the entire population of San Marino, and there are smaller groups in Slovenia and Croatia, primarily in Istria (Istrian Italians) and Dalmatia (Dalmatian Italians). Because of the wide-ranging diaspora, about 5 million Italian citizens and nearly 80 million people of full or partial Italian ancestry live outside their own homeland, which include the 62.5% of Argentina's population  (Italian Argentines), 1/3 of Uruguayans (Italian Uruguayans),  40% of Paraguayans (Italian Paraguayans), 15% of Brazilians (Italian Brazilians, the largest Italian community outside Italy), and people in other parts of Europe bordering Italy, the Americas (such as Italian Americans, Italian Canadians and Italo-Venezuelans among others), Australasia (Italian Australians and Italian New Zealanders), and the Middle East.
Italians have greatly influenced and contributed to diverse fields, notably the arts and music, science and technology, fashion, cuisine, sports, jurisprudence, banking and business both abroad and worldwide. Furthermore, Italian people are generally known for their localism, both regionalist and municipalist.