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Italian language resources
Italian is spoken on a daily basis in: San Marino, United States, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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Italian
Italian (italiano (help�info), or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, primarily in Italy. Standard Italian was strongly influenced by the Tuscan dialect and is somewhat intermediate between Italo-Dalmatian languages of the South and Gallo-Italian languages of the North. Like many languages written using the Latin alphabet, Italian has double consonants. However, contrary to, for example, French and Spanish, double consonants are pronounced as long (geminated) in Italian. As in most Romance languages (with the notable exception of French), stress is distinctive. Out of the Romance languages, Italian is generally considered to be the one most closely resembling Latin in terms of vocabulary[citation needed], though Romanian most closely preserves the declension system of Classical Latin while Sardinian is the most conservative in terms of phonology.
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