page_title: Italian Brazilians
section_title: Other influences
hierarchical_section_title: Italian Brazilians / Italian influences in Brazil / Other influences
caption_attribution_description: Reunião da família de Franklin Benvenutti em Caxias do Sul
context_page_description: Italian Brazilians are Brazilian citizens of full or partial Italian descent. Italian Brazilians are the largest number of people with full or partial Italian ancestry outside Italy, with São Paulo being the most populous city with Italian ancestry in the world. Nowadays, it is possible to find millions of descendants of Italians, from the southeastern state of Minas Gerais to the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, with the majority living in São Paulo state and the highest percentage in the southeastern state of Espírito Santo. Small southern Brazilian towns, such as Nova Veneza, have as much as 95% of their population of Italian descent.
  There are no official numbers of how many Brazilians have Italian ancestry, as the national census conducted by IBGE does not ask the ancestry of the Brazilian people. In 1940, the last census to ask ancestry, 1,260,931 Brazilians were said to be the child of an Italian father, and 1,069,862 said to be the child of an Italian mother. Italians were 285,000 and naturalized Brazilians 40,000. Therefore, Italians and their children were just over 3.8% of Brazil's population in 1940.
context_section_description: Use of ciao ("tchau" in Brazilian-Portuguese) as a 'goodbye' salutation (all of Brazil)
  Wine production (in the South)
  A few loanwords (italianisms), such as bisogno, entrevero, esquifoso (schifoso, disgusting), imbróglio, male-male, manjar (mangiare), noccia, noja, nonna, nonnino, and pivete
  Early introduction of more advanced low-scale farming techniques (Minas Gerais, São Paulo and all Southern Brazil)
caption: The Italian-Brazilian Benvenutti family in 1928
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