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Although the Italian language in the United States is much less used today than it has been previously, there are still several Italian-only media outlets, among which are the St. Louis newspaper Il Pensiero and the New Jersey daily paper America Oggi, as well as ICN Radio. Il Progresso Italo Americano was edited by Carlo Barsotti (1850–1927 ...
Current distribution of the Italian language in the United States. The Italian language and other Italo-Dalmatian languages have been widely spoken in the United States for more than one hundred years, primarily due to large-scale immigration from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century.
Italian is today used in commerce, and it is still spoken especially among elders; besides that, Italian words are incorporated as loan words in the main language spoken in the country (Tigrinya). The capital city of Eritrea, Asmara , still has several Italian schools, established during the colonial period.
Below are the top foreign languages studied in American institutions of higher education (i.e., colleges and universities), based on the Modern Language Association's census of fall 2021 enrollments. "Percentage" refers to each language as a percentage of total U.S. foreign language enrollments.
It is reported as high as 70% of the Albanian adult population has some form of knowledge of Italian. Furthermore, the Albanian government has pushed to make Italian a compulsory second language in schools. [65] Today, Italian is the third most spoken language in the country after Albanian and Greek.
Italian-language mass media in the United States (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Italian language in the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Karachay–Cherkessia (state language; with Abaza, Cherkess, Nogai and Russian) [68] Karelian: Karelia (authorized language; with Finnish and Veps) [82] Kashmiri: India (with 21 other regional languages) Jammu and Kashmir; Kazakh: Republic of Altay (official language; in localities with Kazakh population) [85] part of the People's Republic of China
Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."