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But throughout the world, Italian is the fifth most taught foreign language, after English, French, German, and Spanish. [61] In the European Union statistics, Italian is spoken as a native language by 13% of the EU population, or 65 million people, [62] mainly in Italy. In the EU, it is spoken as a second language by 3% of the EU population ...
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.
Italy: Europe 60,198,633 [6] Official language Switzerland: Europe 8,619,259 [7] Co-official language with German, French, and Romansh Croatia: Europe 208,055 Istria County Slovenia: Europe 93,089 Slovene Istria San Marino: Europe 33,607 [8] Official language Vatican City: Europe 825 [9] Co-official language with Latin: Total 69,153,468
World Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Countries English: 58 23 14 4 3 14 United Kingdom, United States, [k] Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, South Africa, Nigeria (See the full list) [78] French: 27 19 2 – 5 1 France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Madagascar, Monaco, Haiti, Vanuatu (See the full list) Arabic: 23–26* 12 ...
In North America 1,000,000 people speak Portuguese as their home language, mainly immigrants from Brazil, Portugal, and other Portuguese-speaking countries and their descendants. [23] In Oceania, Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language, after French, due mainly to the number of speakers in East Timor.
Judeo-Italian: 250 [129] 121 Manx: 230 [130] 2,300 [131] 122 Ingrian: 120 [132] 123 Wymysorys: less than 20 70 [133] 124 Latin: dead only several dozen and definitely less than 100 [134] unranked Emilian: Romagnol
Italian was first declared to be Italy's official language during the Fascist period, more specifically through the R.D.l., adopted on 15 October 1925, with the name of Sull'Obbligo della lingua italiana in tutti gli uffici giudiziari del Regno, salvo le eccezioni stabilite nei trattati internazionali per la città di Fiume. [25]
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and speakers. Country or territory ... Italy: 35 12 47