# Italian leid

| Italian |
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| *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 (c.2012) 90 million total speakers L2 speakers: 24 million |
| Leid faimily | Indo-European
* Italic
	+ Romance
		- Italo-Wastren
			* Italo-Dalmatian
				+ **Italian**
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| Writin seestem | Laitin (Italian alphabet) Italian Braille |
| Signed forms | *Italiano segnato* "(Signed Italian)" *italiano segnato esatto* "(Signed Exact Italian)" |
| Offeecial status |
| Offeecial leid in |  Italy  San Marino   Switzerland  Vatican City

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 Istrie Coonty (Croatie)  Slovene Istrie (Slovenie)  Brazil (Talian dialect in Rio Grande do Sul & Santa Catarina)

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*European Union*  OSCE  Sovereign Militar Order o Malta

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| Recognised minority leid in |  Albania  Argentina  Australie  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Corsicae (Fraunce)  Croatia  Eritrea  Ethiopia  Libya  Malta  Monaco  Montenegro  Romania  Slovenia  Somalia  Venezuela |
| Regulatit bi | Accademia della Crusca (*de facto*) |
| Leid codes |
| ISO 639-1 | `it` |
| ISO 639-2 | `ita` |
| ISO 639-3 | `ita` |
| Glottolog | `ital1282` |
| Linguasphere | `51-AAA-q` |
|   Main leid
  Used offeecially in the Italian colonial period; nou seicontary
  Lairge Italian-speakin commonties
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Whaur Italian is spoken in Europe.
**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.

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).

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.

* Cursive làmh-sgrìobhte aig sgoil Eadailteach
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* Berloco, Fabrizio (2018). *The Big Book of Italian Verbs: 900 Fully Conjugated Verbs in All Tenses. With IPA Transcription, 2nd Edition*. Lengu. ISBN 9788894034813.
* Palermo, Massimo (2015). *Linguistica italiana*. Il Mulino. ISBN 9788815258847.
* Simone, Raffaele (2010). *Enciclopedia dell'italiano*. Treccani.

## Ither wabsites

* Italian grammar and interactive course (in Inglis)
* Italian proverbs(in Inglis)
* Italian Learning Tips Archived 2021-01-26 at the Wayback Machine(in Inglis)
* Italian Grammar Primer(in Inglis)
* Italian Online Dictionaries and Glossaries Archived 2007-12-26 at the Wayback Machine(in Inglis)

## See Forby

* Romance leids
* Spaingie leid
* French leid
* Portuguese leid
* Laitin leid
* Italy