7 Unexpected Countries Where Italian is Spoken
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- Spanish, French, Arabic, Mandarin, English, and other languages are often considered international languages because they're spoken all around the world. Other languages, like Italian, have a large Italian speaking population in Italy, but the other regions that speak Italian are often not considered when foreign language students are selecting a language to learn. However, there are many countries around the world where there are large Italian speaking populations. This video explores some of the important regions where Italian is spoken as a first or second language by a large percentage of the population. Hopefully this video will help to change your mind that Italian truly is an international language!
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Which country were you most surprised by? 🇮🇹
You forgot one important country, some part of Brasil they speak as first language TALIAN, is not really Italian it is a dialect from Veneto but is really similar.
@@TechnoJourney805 Oh cool! Never heard about that before. Thanks for sharing 😄
@@TheTravellingLinguist Brazil has the largest number of population of Italian descent outside Italy, around 30 million people. The states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Santa Catarina have a large population of Italian descendants. almost the entire population of some cities is of Italian descent. There is a second official language spoken in Brazil called Talian and it is the language of immigrants from the Veneto Region.
How could you forget about Brazil?! Brazil has the largest number of Italian descendants outside Italy! There are more than 30 million people in Brazil of Italian origin! And, of course, there are some cities (mostly in the south) that speak Talian, a variation of Italian.
I'm really disappointed.
romanias population
You forgot Albania where Italian is the first language studied and taught in many primary schools
True
and San Marino republic
As first language or first foreign language?
@@danielhalachev4714 As first foreign language. But it is widely spoken at different levels by the entire population, so I'd say it is the most widespread foreign language.
@@mynameisgiovannigiorgio1027 actually it says unexpected countries, there is missing even vatican city
When I, a Libyan, speak Spanish, I’m thought to be Argentinian due to accent haha.. Love dalla Libia 🇱🇾 🇮🇹
Yu probably speak Rio Platence Spanish
@@SealBreeze interesting gotta look that up. But I'd like to think that it's our Tripolitanian accent cuz it's not just 'me' per se haha
Aspetta ma quindi Sei libico e parli italiano??
@@davixel3288 hey scusate ma didn’t see ur comment. See, io parlo italiano solo un po cuz I have some Italian friends in Libia and in other countries. Plus our language is highly influenced by Italian and we use Italian vocabulary everyday
Love from the ex motherland Italy 🇮🇹🇱🇾
I am from Argentina, no Italian ancestry at all but I can speak Italian, too. I studied Italian for two years, mostly because I just love how it sounds. I can confirm the Italian influence in the cuisine, and the gesticulations, 😂,
I think it was pretty easy for you to learn Italian. As an Italian, I understand Spanish (I've never studied it) without many problems
@@vix9030 It was. In my class was a Russian guy. It was hardest for him, even if he knew Spanish and in the first class he said "laburo en un kiosco". Laburo (trabajo in good Spanish) means work, it's lunfardo, the local argot.
Grandeeeee
È sempre bello quando qualcuno sa parlare la tua linguaaaa
@@myriampro4973 in Italy "laburo en ..." is exactly something we would expect from a Spanish-speaking person trying to speak Italian 😂
@@Balbuziente laburo is lavoro work or trabajar in spanish or travaggiari in calabro/sicilian dialect
The first time I traveled to Toronto, Canada I was impressed by the number of residents speaking Italian. They even have a TV channel in Italian. Not to mention that Sao Paulo, Brazil has millions of Italian passport in the population
My grand grandmother lives there
Little Italy aswell i think
yeah Italians also in USA and Canada.
Italian is spoken just among the older immigrants in Toronto. Younger ones prefer to communicate in English. Btw, Toronto is the biggest immigrant city in the world and there are some accounts saying that 150 languages are spoken in GTA!
@@leonne07 Yeah true, im from there as well.
0:39: Switzerland 🇨🇭
1:10: Slovenia 🇸🇮 / Croatia 🇭🇷
2:07: Malta 🇲🇹
3:05: Libya 🇱🇾
3:56: Romania 🇷🇴
4:24: Argentina 🇦🇷
What a lost of time watching this video I thought the first country on the list would be Brazil? Is the country with the largest number of Italian descendants and speakers.
@@siloemascolo2769 the so-called "talian" (spoken in a region of Brazil) is very similar to Veneto dialect
Monaco, San Marino and the State of Vatican.
@@margotmargot4426 Eritrea, Somalia, Albania and France (Corsica)
@@nicolou4599 Italian colonialism didn't have that much of an effect on Somalia. You might find a few old people speaking it but almost no Somalis speak Italian.
Even the phonology of the Argentinian Spanish is different and more related to Italian
I wouldn't say more related to Italian it has influences but it's not ”more” they speak Spanish and people forget that Galician has impacted the way people in Argentina speak.
@@DanielHerrera-rl1vw yeah you mean "lunfardo" but search about "cocolicche" ..
Tranquilo Italiano tercer mundista
I speak Lombardian myself because I'm from Lombardy which is in northern italy and we've got many french words
Pero sigue siendo español.
Nice vidéo but you forgot France and specially south East and Corsica: Italian is taught at college as 2nd language after english and as in Argentine large amont of population have italian root. The french spoken in Marseille has got italian words : for exemple to designate someone who works very badly we say : « tchapacan » from italian « acchiappa cane » that means he is good only to catch the dogs.
Thanks for mentioning! The French spoken in Marseille has always fascinated me. It's been on my travel list for years. Hopefully some day I'll get to hear Marseille French in person :)
I'm Italian, and once I've tried to speak with a friend of mine who's from Marseille, I couldn't even get the pronouns! His speaking was so rare to me that was impossible to understand. My French sucks, but I definitely get talk to a native speaker at a basic level
“Ciapa can” is probably Ligurian or Piedmontese rather than standard Italian.
Plus, Corsican is really an Italian dialect derived from Tuscan although the French govt. is trying its best to get it extinct.
As an Italian, I can tell you that ciapa can clearly comes from Veneto's dialect
@@mrclean29 in Piedmont we say " "ciapa rat", but still it is very similar to that
Don't forget Monaco, italian has been official language until 1919 when it got replaced by french, but it's still very widespread. Italian has also been official language of Malta until 1934
Also, San Marino and The Vatican, both independent countries within Italy
Venezuela too, Tunisians speak Italian well. East Africans can communicate well in Italian. I don't know the figures, this is only personal experience. I have been to areas of New-York where nothing but Italiian is spoken. I have known many Russians who have learnt Italian just because they like it. I spoke with a very successful Chinese business-man who wanted to learn Italian so he could appreciate Italian Opera more by understanding the lyrics. Italian speakers are to be found where one would'nt expect they existed.
There's one that really few people know about: Costa Rica. Yes, few people talk italian here, but there's a full comunity that started as an italian village, called San Vito, Coto Brus. This was so relevant that we even have 3 Associazione Culturale Dante Alighieri branches (The most important Italian language organization in the world), one of them located in the Capital, one in Heredia, and one in Coto Brus.
You forgot to mention Eritrea. That country has close historic ties with Italy and many of its people speak Italian.
He did mention it while talking about Libya
Also only the older population speaks it and that has been fading
You forgot Albania, they used to watch Italian TV programs and they learned the language
Indeed, Malta too, since the local Maltese programming is absolutely dire, I understand, although English language films can be shown undubbed/subtitled of course.
Che bello vedere il mio paese apprezzato e studiato da altri stati! Love Italy from Italy! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🍕
Ha dimenticato San Marino
@@gionathanbufalino2096 San Marino è praticamente un qualsiasi comune italiano dai xd
@@BrianFurios San Marino è uno Stato indipendente che non ha nulla a che vedere con l'Italia, ha propri passaporti, proprie carte d'identità ecc.. domandalo ai Sammarinesi se si sentono italiani e poi fammi sapere la loro risposta...
@@Maurizio.Masini gentilezza
@@BrianFurios non politicamente
I'd go to Argentina to speak Italian, because if things get hard I can always turn to Spanish... my mother tongue🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good thinking hahaha
They don’t speak Italian as an official language in Argentina it was a colony of Spain - Italian immigration along with many other groups took place after Argentina was already established.
If you're planning to speak Italian in Argentina you're crazy, they are only Italian descendants but it's going to be really hard to find an Argentinian who speaks Italian.
@@mr.infante There're many of them, especially in Buenos Aires, Rosario or Mendoza. But of course it's still a small group compared to the whole population.
@@DieterRahm1845 I lived in Buenos Aires for 2 years and although there must be a small community of Italo-speakers it is not significant, hence not the best place for practicing Italian language, probably there are more Italo-speakers in Brazil than in Argentina
As a southern italian from Puglia, i want to say that for me, the closest people to us in culture, mentality and the life style, are the greeks, albanians, croatian, maltese and lybians/tunisians. That’s what i’ve noticed by living outside of italy ❤️ Love to the mediterranean people
Wbu Slovenians?
Agreed. I'm a Libyan who's been living abroad for many years and I noticed the same thing (Italians, Tunisians, & Maltese only for me). Saluti dalla Libia 🇱🇾
I've heard that Puglia's had some Greek-speaking villages even in recent times!
Definitely, it is because of proximity in most of these cases. In the case of Lybia, it is because of colonialism...
@@aureliano_37 they are more german
In Somalia once 40% could speak Italian now you would fine 0% apart from few loan words. Italian is quite easy language and us Somali people had no hard time to pronounce it.
..actually that is why they wanted to keep it all because it was so easy to learn and phonetically similar to Somali anyways.
Maybe one day Italian can flourish once again. I bet it will be a great cultural resource for your land.
@@salvo5108 no mate Italians are amongst the defeated countries they have zero influence around the world plus Italian is only spoken in Italy nowhere else unlike english and french or spanish.
@@mahadljama4578 I sense a lot of bias in your answer. Also it is very incorrect. Italian influence today is quite substantial. Also there are about 200 million speaking Italians people in the world and Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world, mainly for its prestige. I think that is quite impressive, but maybe you can do better. Also the world is not judged by defeats or victories like in some war game, but it's far more complex. Also history did not begin. in WWII.
@@salvo5108 Italian for some reason has no influence over it’s former colonies unlike portugal,france, and Britain. English has dominated former italian colonies
My wife was born in Istria of Italian background on her father's side. When we visit there or go to Slovenia, everyone speaks Italian, even the true Croatian and Slovenian relatives. Thank you for an interesting video.
Haha true! I'm from Argentina and my whole family speaks italian, when I was a kid and my parents went to work they left us with my Nonna who spoke mainly italian so it's also kind of our mother-tongue
You have forgotten to add so many other communities like the Talian language of Brazil , the Venezuela ( Little Venice) , Uruguay, Cile , Australia, the almost 15 mln people with italian roots of USA , Canada , Albania and the biggest Italian speakers Town outside Italy which is London ( ! ) ....Without mentioning the rest of EU huge Italian communities .
Brazil have 40million italian heritage and half the population of Argentina is italian
America has 30million italian root population
@alibabaregis you are very mistaken. Since 1800s there are now 35 to 40 million of italian blooded italians who call themselves brazilian. These are 4th and 5th generations italians and mixed brazilian italian blood.
Sao paolo has millions of italians
Italians are the biggest minority group in London ❤
Many "Italian" speakers from some locations mentioned in the video do not actually speak standard Italian (which derives from Tuscan) but some of the regional languages of Italy.
In Trieste they speak Triestin, a language derived from the Venetian language.
In Istria they speak Istriot, a language that can be classified between Venetian and the extinct Dalmatian.
In Italian Switzerland many speak Lombard.
In Argentina, many actually speak Piedmontese, Lombard, Venetian or Friulian.
In addition to these countries:
In Brazil, especially in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, a variant of the Venetian language is spoken, which was recognized under the name "Talian".
In Mexico (Chipilo), a variant of the Venetian language is also spoken, which is called Chipileño.
In the Canton of Ticino (and the italian speaking regions of Canton of Grigioni) in Switzerland we speak standard italian, although some call it "swiss italian" as it has certain peculiarities not present in Italy, and this is the language used by the government, tv, newspapers and taught at school. We have a dialect called "Dialett Ticines", which is very similar to the Lombard dialect, however it is not very common (especially among younger generations).
In any case the italian spoke in Switzerland is 99.9% the same as standard italian. It is in fact so similar, that people in Italy can't hear the difference of our accent compared to the Lombardia region and only some words give us up.
@@cantthinkofabettername7016 Thanks for commenting. Since you live there I will ask you. Do people there generally consider themselves more Italian or Swiss? And do you identify yourself more as Italian or Swiss? I saw a video a few days ago where a local said they consider themselves Italians. ua-cam.com/video/R7W3_kxsDdA/v-deo.html&lc=UgybiszWalFSJtZD1Gl4AaABAg.9U066ZOjli89U3OESTndAY
@@cantthinkofabettername7016 Yes, it was exactly the "dialett ticines" I was referring to, it is a variant of the Lombard language. But is sad it's disappearing there too. Almost everywhere in the world, minority languages are threatened and with each generation they are less spoken.
I lived and half of my family is from Ticino and I can guarantee to you that in Ticino Italian is the first language. Lombard is spoken as a "dialect" as in Lombardy, lol ahaah
@@Ludographic359 what you say it doesn't make sense. What do you means by "speak as a dialect?"
In Brazil, we have a lot of cities that people learn Italian as mother language, my case as well. Some of the cities have Italian as an official language.
Which cities in Brazil? Thanks
@@cantrait7311 Bento Gonçalves and a lot of Serra Gaúcha cities and southern Brazil in general, such as in the southeast, São Paulo.
@@EricNoneless Interesting thanks
@@EricNoneless Brazil, mas belo do mundo! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹❤️❤️❤️
Non lo sapevo!
The United States and Canada also have populations speaking Italian, Sicilian, or some regional dialect of Southern Italy. My grandparents were Southern Italian and Sicilian immigrants to America. My family attended an Italian Catholic church in Detroit, Michigan. I'm rather sorry I never learned enough to be fluent. I know only certain words and phrases, and those are not of the Italian taught in schools but instead are of the regional dialects or patois.
The most Italian-americans don't speak Italian. Just a minority do it.
you just 'murican
Theese dialects are not dialects. Are languages.
@@Boh-dc4mf, the only difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has a passport and an army.
@@lupesiodelupis241 No, in reality Italian dialects are internationally recognized as languages
Canada also has a large Italian speaking population. The Greater Toronto Area has Italian radio and TV stations. Many second generation Canadians also speak Italian (as well as a dialect like Friulan or Sicilian) as Italian immigrants are very good at preserving their language.
Do they preserve it or blend it? Here in Australia many Italian descendents will mix in Italian to give a little more spark to Australian English.
@@juniornutshell I think the Italian Canadians do a fantastic job at preserving the Italian language. Because they are good at Italian, may pick up French easily so many of them are trilingual
@@juniornutshell Italian is actually blending into English. We don't have simple Italian words, instead we steal them from English for common things: we should say probably "computatore", not "computer", which Spanish has: "computador". TV news is always full of written English words, especially for actuality topics, new phenomenons. We younger generally create brand new words due to videogames: "killare" instead of "uccidere", "buildare" and not "costruire", though for now it's limited to that and few other things. We aren't preserving our language, we borrow more and more every day, but now I wonder how can an artificial language adapt as well as all the others. In those communities - is the language really that preserved?
That's good.
@@Giulio-yo9by Sì, ma solo voi 2006 di merda usate parole come "killare", "Shoppare" (questa te la sei dimenticata! XD) e "Buildare"... invece, una parola che è realmente entrata nel vocabolario italiano è "Chattare"... "Cervellone elettronico" e "Computatore" sono parole che esistono veramente, in Italiano, per indicare il computer, solo che non le usa più nessuno (la prima era usata negli anni '70, la seconda non la usava praticamente nessuno già allora).
I’m Irish (mother tongue: English), but I also speak fluent French, German, Spanish and Italian.
Italian is my favourite of those languages, even if it is the least useful for global travel. Sometimes beauty out trumps utility.
@Francesca Silvana Scoppio Potrei, ma non tutti capirebbero allora.
Oh wow! I’m English and French, so they’re both native languages to me of course, but I also speak fluent Spanish and am learning German as well as Italian at the moment (we’re basically copy and paste haha). Would you have any tips for learning German and Italian? Thanks
P.S: Congrats for the rugby (if you’re into it) 🇳🇿 🇮🇪
It always amazes me to think that Italian is one of the most studied languages globally. As an Italian myself the question is simply "why?" 😂
@@alexdel5629 Well I moved to Italy and worked there for four years. That’s why I learned it. I already spoke fluent French by that stage, and I had studied Latin for six years in school, so I picked it up easily enough. It’s a beautiful language. Phonetic and logical. Unlike English!
@@gavindoyle692 I guess if you worked in Italy it does make sense. Also, Latin for six years?? That's impressive. I had to study Latin for two years in high school and it sure was hard (even though Italian is supposedly the closest major language to Latin).
Also in Corsica they speak Corsican dialect, which is practically Italian with a Sardinian and French accent
E poi il nizzardo, che è classificato come ligure, quindi dialetto italiano.
@@dossettomarco il corso è proprio italiano, non come quelli che noi chiamiamo impropriamente "dialetti" che in realtà sono delle lingue a sé stanti (come siciliano, napoletano, lombardo, veneto ecc ecc..). Non so come sia il ligure invece, quindi non so se sia una lingua a sé stante oppure se è davvero un dialetto dell'italiano come il corso
@@AntonioRaele la questione è un po' relativa per me. Son tutti "italiani" da cui è derivato l'italiano. Dialetti o lingue dipende da classificazioni di forma ... Tutto è lingua. :)
Of course they speak Italian. Corsica at one time was under Italy.
Italian is also spoken in Eritrea, a country in East Africa. Many street signs are written in Italian.
Hi! I was looking for videos about Italy and I found your UA-cam channel. I'm so happy I found it, it's exactly what I was looking for! I think your content is very interesting, I love to learn more about languages! I would love to do Spanish subtitles for your videos, so if that's something you'd be interested in, please let me know! I hope you keep uploading more videos :)
65% Argentinian are italian decent and migrated to Argentina during 19th century and many after WWII.Even Messi is Italian decent.
of course they 90% italian and spanish decent even many nazi German soldier flew to Argentina in WW2
@@zafusca here in argentina we don't want the nazis and we don't like being associated with them
@@zafusca Maradona was half Italian also... also the German ss officers went by ship to South America.
Up until a few years ago, Italian was the most common language spoken in Australia after English...not anymore though but still it's significant
Italy is so beautiful
no
@@Deckbark si.
It has lots of haters for some reason
@@cannotfigureoutaname hahaha that's not true at all but oh well
@@aliceelivi05 You would be surprised, I was too to be honest
Excellent video. Thanks
so interesting! thank you!
On my island called Lussino (Lošinj in Croatian) in Croatia we talk istro/venetian dialect.
Ma daj!
Un gran lavoro signore!! Grazie mille!!
È il mio piacere! Grazie! :)
Finalmente,aspettavo un video del genere
Very good job! Complimenti!
There are over a quarter of a million people who speak Italian as their first language in Australia. Italian is the sixth largest ancestry group in Australia after English, Australian, Irish, Scottish and Chinese.
You can visit many suburbs and towns in Australia and hear Italian being spoken daily in the street.
250 000 people speaking italian in australia that is not true. You can go to australia it will be hard for you to find someone you speaks italian
@@thato596 my stats come straight from the 2021 census so these are the official numbers. Of course nowadays half of the Italian speakers are over 70, but they still use it.
@@neumanmachine3781 a lot of their descendants speak italian also
what is "Australian" in the middle of English and Irish. is this the aboriginal groups there?
On a lighter side and if you have not already read it, may I suggest you read "They're a Weird Mob" written by John O'Grady under the pseudonym of Nino Culotta. It is supposedly about an Italian immigrant to Australia. It was also made into a film.
🇪🇷 Eritrea either bro we spoke Italian too cheers 🤞🤞🤞
No, they speak english there. they can't speak italian in Eritrea.
@@user-wp4oh3zn5e No offence, but maybe he/she is really from Eritrea and knows local people speaking Italian!
These videos are useful for my listening comprehension. I'm learning english and I'm also a languages fan. Please continue with this fantastic channel. 🙂🤓
Italian is still the language of Western classical music. Students of music all over the Western world, and in other countries influenced by them, learn Italian musical terms and many singers pick up the language due to the extensive repertoire.
I’m Argentinian and your facts are true ,my mother’s side is originally from Argentina,and my father’s side is originally from Spain .
Your video is very informing were the langauge is spoken which is nice. Looking at italian language it's very limited to Italy and small part of switzerland. In other countries it won't be easy to find people who speak italian unlike other widely spoken languages.
Tunisia had a number of italian speakers
Yes, and they mostly migrated back to France or to Italy ...Or they migrated to Italy and then to France like the great actress Claudia Cardinale, born in Tunis: Sicilian was the language spoken in her family and French the language learned during her schooling, so that, although she is of Tunisian and Italian nationality, she only learnt Italian as an adult, in order to be able to make movies in Italy, at the time when Italian cinema was one of the greatest (unfortunately this is no longer the case today).
I think Morocco as well
@@elijah420stuffs2 in Morocco they speak spanish
Maltese tends to have way more common conversational words derived from Arabic however more per say intellectual words are derived from italian and Sicilian
Also many T.V channels in Malta tend to be in Italian so that may be one reason why there is so many Italian speakers
finally someone differentiate Sicilian to Italian
thank you really, people tend to think both languages are the same
Many italians moved to malta
@@Violaa707 They’re not the same but they’re similar like portuguese Galician and Spanish are all three similar to each other. Sicilians often speak Sicilian with friends and family however they speak Italian for all other official purposes. Italian is the only language Sicilians learn in school and it is the language of administration government and media in sicily
@@maxsavage3998 like zeb89
You can also mention the Vatican, San Marino and Monaco. In Eritrea and Somalia you can find many young educated people who can speak Italian. There are youtbe videos about them.
As the son of Italians who arrived in Argentina, I have to admit that I know how to speak Italian but not read and write since my parents did not know either, therefore I have the native Italian language but without writing and reading, having to learn to read and write Spanish as a result of education local.
Basically you write as you read
@@ValeriusMagni vero. Ademar, tu sai scrivere. Prova leggere, tu capirai.
El italiano es extremadamente fonético. Si sabes hablar & escribir en español y hablar italiano creo que aprender a escribirlo sería bastante fácil
Italian is an *official* language in 4 nations only:
1) Italy
2) Switzerland
3) San Marino
4) Vatican City
As a second language (or popular language) you forgot to mention Monaco, Nice (France), and others.
Cool video though ;)
PS I'm an Italian linguist from Rome.
Also Brasil(even Costa Rica from I have red from the comments)
I live in Haifa Israel and while Italian isn't universally spoken in Israel, Haifa has had a major presence of Carmelite priests and nuns teaching the Christian Arab population. It is not uncommon to find an Arab who speaks Italian well enough to hold a conversation. Any place you find Christian Arabs, you can find Italian speakers. Tel Aviv also has a large Italian speaking population of immigrants from Italy, Libya and other places.
In Córcega a large amount of people speaks corso which is considered an italian dialect as there are many in italy and it is very similar to standard italian.
L'🇮🇹 è BELLA OVUNQUE
🇮🇹 is beautiful everywhere, in every single region
I was expecting to see Uruguay on this list
Italian is also the official language of San Marino, and you can find many Italian speakers in the island of Corsica and in the Principality of Monaco
Corsica is a region of France, not a country
The majority of Corsica speaks French and Monaco Also they speak French
Belgium has a large Italian community. In Brussels and the south almost 10% of the population is of Italian descend and Italian is spoken.
What is unusual is that Belgium has a large proportion of Sicilians and Southern Italians, normally to be found in the new world.
Then my good friend you forgot that horrible horrible accident, that here is simply remembered with the name of the location where it happened.........Marcinelle, lots of italian immigrants lost their life in that blasted mine.....
Please don't take this the wrong way, i have nothing against you guys, i'm just mad at the fate itself 😅
Now I know why there are Belgian footballers with Italian lastnames such as Alessandro Albanese
just a curiosity, how come you said Sicilians AND Southern italians? you're not the only one I've seen doing this in the comment section, and it's really bizarre to me because Sicilians are indeed southern Italian, no need to separate the two!
@@anniiinaaaaaaaa it is weird indeed 🤔
@@anniiinaaaaaaaa you are absolutely right of course, Sicilians are southern Italians. I was just trying to highlight that in southern Belgium there are many southern Italians from Sicily. Also in my experience, not always but often, if you say to someone " sei Italiano" and they come from Sicily, the answer will be "Sicilliano".
Albania,Eritrea, USA, Canada,Corsica,Brasile,Tunisia,Marocco ? Where are they ?
By percentage, Uruguay is the most "Italian" country in the world outside Italy
Actually, standard Italian (which is based on Tuscan/Florentine dialect) wasn't the first language of a majority of Italians until the late 1970s (at least according to Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue"). The other regional dialects and languages like Neapolitan, Sicilian, Venetian, etc. still hold a lot of sway, which isn't surprising since the modern Italian nation was only fully unified in 1871.
1861
@@dameoftarot Unification was completed in 1871 after the Capture of Rome and its designation as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (which was proclaimed in 1861).
@@pablorai769 If we want to be precise unification intended as all the current territories under control of the Italian State was completed only after the first world war with Trieste and Trento
Yes, I know, the three key dates are 1861, 1871 and 1918, however normally 1871 is considered as the culmination of the unification.
@@pablorai769 No, it's not. 1861 is considered that. They taught that in schools.
Malindi, Kenya. I lived there for two years and most Africans greeted me in Italian instead of my native English, because of the large Italian tourist/expat population there.
Don’t call them expats call them immigrants, that’s what they are.
if they can say Ciao or other basic greetings doesn't mean they can speak italian...:)
This is a lovely video, but you did forget the huge communities in Mexico and Brazil, though they technically speak Venetian, Friulan, and other such languages that are not Italian, you counted Argentina where much of the main "Italian" spoken is actually also Venetian
You could have added Eritrea, check out Drew Binsky's video about it :) seems a really cool country
You did not incude Brazil on the list. I would dare to say that the world's largest italian descendent comunity is in Brazil. Mainly in São Paulo and southern states.
There is a town here in Mexico where a variant of the Venetian called Chipilo is spoken.
Won’t forget Michoacán
Dont
In nueva italia and Lombardía
Im from Monaco and I speak Italian🇲🇨
I spent a week in Belgium and I found many people in Bruxelles speaking Italian for various reasons. Very surprising.
You forgot Albania
In montreal, when italy won the world cup, you could drive anywhere and you would see italian flags, but it wasnt just one or two people doing it, it was thousands
Others countries with a lot of people that have a good feeling with italian language are: Albania (like Romania they have half population that for reason of work speak italian quite well), Grecia (for tourism industry), Uruguay, Eritrea (where Asmara is called little Roma), France (Corsica, Nizza and Savoia and in Paris there's a lot of italian and 25% of france people have ancient italian origin), Spain (there's a lot of mixed family "italo-spagnole" - half million), Bulgaria (for tourism industry), Tunisia (for tourism and for work and businness), Brasile (overall in San Paolo state - Bolsonaro is italo-brasilian and speack italian well), Venezuela (one million of italian immigrates), Cuba and Russia (for tourism industry and for mixed family, Italy have strong politic relation throught Italian Communist Party with communist country in the past and Russian also to day love italian language and culture for example : ua-cam.com/video/-ftte_c3x24/v-deo.html is a program on the canal of Russia). So in Germany and in UK there's a lot of italian immigrates
Learned something new! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I doubt Spain has 500k people involved in an italian-spanish family. I live in Spain and I know there's abt 150k italians (those are straight up italians, I don't count italo-descendants), I even know quite a few myself!!, but I'm not sure abt 500k people involved in italo-spanish family
@@princesarubio9295 te puedo decir que es la verdad yo estoy casado con una chica esp. y conozco muchissima parejas. Lo puedes comprovar en Verano o en la Navidad en los aeropuertos o en los barcos ( Genova Barcellona por ejemplo).
@@marcobertoni2381 ok te creo. Para ser sincera yo soy de Murcia, y aunque veo bastantes italianos, la mayoría son jóvenes que estudian en la universidad o son recién graduados, entonces son demasiado jóvenes para estar casados. No veo tantos italianos de más de 30-35 años, pero también es cierto que en la zona de Barcelona hay muchísimos más y probablemente tengas razón
Vale un saludo y un abrazo . PD la my mujer es de Bilbao. PD 2 ! Agua sucia para Murcia! Como dicen nel Levante !
There are two landlocked countries that are not really surprising as they are entirely surrounded by Italy. These two are San Marino and Vatican City.
Non solo l'Argentina ma anche il Brasile e l'Uruguay
Interesting. The diversity in dialects between North and South of Italy are also key factors. My parents came from Southern Italy and Sicily. Italian was spoken at home, a hybrid of the two dialects. I struggle to understand "standard" Italian and the Northern accents and dialects. These dialects are embedded in the history of Italy, they arose from the various occupying rulers and some insularity prior to unification. And there is also "Italese" which the offspring of Italian ex-pats may be familiar with in the UK. However, one aspect that is rarely discussed is the class basis of the language and dialects. Especially as mass immigration arose mainly amongst the dirt poor, and migrants would congregate in communities arising from their region.
I must correct you for Romania. The country’s population stands at around 18-19 million people. Also, it’s true that it’s very easy for romanian speakers to learn italian due to the latin roots, but a lot of Romanians speak italian mainly because there is a big diaspora there in Italy. I don’t think it would be that easy for an italian speaker in Romania to communicate only in italian
Agree, if anything Albania should have been more fitted for the video instead of Romania.
I've been to Bucarest for a week a couple of months ago, and although most people, as expectable, didn't spoke Italian, I quite a few people that after realizing we were Italians started talking to us in (a pretty broken) italian, this happen to me this many times only in Malta
There are many Romanian thieves in italy... May I ask why?
@@sichaoxian Romanian in italy are mainly hardworkers and not thieves. There are some thieves, mainly because italy is very soft on criminals (contrary to Romania which is very harsh on them and Bucharest is one of the safest capitals of Europe)
Actually, you (quite incredibly) forgot to mention:
- Vatican City (Italian: official language),
- San Marino (Italian: official language),
- USA (almost 1 million people daily use it, mainly in the NYC, Boston area),
- Albania (1st studied foreign language),
- Somalia (and also a bit of Eritrea).
-Brasil
-Argentina
-Venezuela
-Costa Rica
-Uruguay
-Czech Republic(Prague is full of Italians, even some waitress speak and understand Italian)
-Spain(specially Canary Islands (
-Uk
-Australia
-Usa(New York specially)
Italian does spread itself quite widely, think about cultural things and food/ drink. Many coffee shops here in England will just use Italian names for things because it's understood
despite the mis-pronunciation or mis-interpretations .......for example : "Latte" = milk (not milky coffee)
ciao vengo dalla somalia e usiamo la lingua italiana qualche volta 🇸🇴
Best wishes to your country! May it see better time ahead! ❤🇸🇴
Stop the nonsense. We never use Italian. Talyaaniga haddaad jeceshahay orod waddankooda tag oo futada u dhigo.
@@mirewarsame6660 what is you problem with the Italians m8? some people still speak the language unlike you. Get over it.
@@bepivisintainer2975 Get over what? To say that we use Italian in my country is a false statement.
@@mirewarsame6660 how about all those that claim to speak it? you are clearly one against many even in this page. Italophobic aren't we m8? ;-)
I didnt know that my country Argentina was the 1st place. I thought that everyone knew that haha.
I have french origin, my grandmother was Italian, she was born in Potenza. She passed away 10 years ago.
There are a few countries/regions missing: Albania, Uruguay (the same as Argentina), many Greeks islands (corfu, Rhodes , zante etc), Tunisia , France regions like Côte d’Azur n corse, Monaco, Eritrea and in the capital of somalia
We can also add the island of Corsica.
Yes in Corsica they speak Corsu and not Italian, but 90% of the Corsican language is similar to my dialect which is Lucchese one of the Tuscan dialects.
For example, I can understand about 90% of what they say, because the Corsican language is also one of the languages closest to Italian and the Tuscan dialect.
And I also think older people are able to easily have a conversation with an Italian.
Corsica is not a country
@@teamawesomeness7137 No shit Sherlock!
I know Corsica is not a country, but it can be included because it is an exception
Napoleon was of Tuscan nobility. I think he was born a year after the Republic of Genoa sold Corsica to France.
Corsican IS an Italian dialect.
@@silvanoragozza656 No, not really. The italian language is not italian it Tuscan language which has been adopted as the official italian language. Since the languages like Neapolitan, Siciian , Venetian etc developed independently from Italic/Latin, they cannot be called a dialect of "Italian" (Tuscan)
Argentinian people have a similar names to Italian
You forgot Albania, Uruguay, Brazil and even the USA, where there are still people who speaks Italian (or Italian dialects)
As an Istriani/Italian, Italian is spoken by both sides of the family.
You forgot that in Corsica (french Island that should belong to Italy, or should be Independent) they speak "corsu" It Is the locale dialect and It Is like 90% completely understandble from an italian
Pourquoi ''devrait''-elle appartenir à l'Italie ? C'est le soulèvement des Corses contre Gênes qui est à l'origine du rattachement de l'île à la France.
Et l'argument de la langue ne tient pas, en Lorraine, beaucoup de citoyens parlent un patois ou carrément allemand, et pourtant ils sont bien français !
The French concept of nation according to its meaning resulting from the Revolution of 1789 is a political concept, a contract between the State and each "French" citizen. It has its origins in the history of the kingdom of France, a multi-ethnic state par excellence whose borders are pure political creation, in the geometric form of the hexagon. In contrast, the concept of Italian nationalism, as in all of Central and Eastern Europe, is a concept of "ethnic" and religious identity.
Yes, Corsu exists, what news ;) but we should stop spreading old Italian nationalist, revanchist and worn-out fantasies. You just forgot few facts: The Corsicans didn't want to belong to Italy or, more exactly, to an Italian power (Genoa for instance) and later to the new created Kingdom of Italy, or even further later to the Italian Republic, even during the Italian occupation 1940-1945 under the nationalist-fachist regime of Mussolini. You forgot as well that, even at the origins the "francization"of Corsica has been characterized by diplomatic maneuvers, Corsicans in their majoritiy, until today, have never rejected belonging to France.
European France has many regions, like Corsica, that weren't "French speaking" on the first place: Apart from the historical linguistic regions of the northern part of the country with very pronounced linguistic traditions (Picard, Norman, Poitevin, etc.) and alongside the Corsican language you had/have the prestigious Occitan language and culture in the southern part of the country, as well as Breton-speaking, Basque-speaking, German-speaking, Catalan-speaking regions, or even a very small Dutch-speaking region by Dunkirk. Not to mention the overseas departments and territories where multiple languages are widely spoken, such as multiple and varied Creole languages, Melanesian or Polynesian languages, or even Amerindian or Vietnamese languages in French Guiana.
The situation of the Corsican language and culture, the Corsican reality, are far from being an exception in France, a country historically all the more politically extremely centralized that its population was originally extremely diverse: culturally, linguistically (French is originally only the language of the Paris region), architecturally or even juridically: Between Roman law in the south and customary law in the north before the Revolution of 1789. But even today for example the "pretty holy" French obsession with secularism is not 100% in force in the German-speaking regions in the far North-East occupied by Germany between 1871 and 1918. Similarly, there are still local monarchs recognized by the "very, very holy" République ;) in some Polynesian islands - I am thinking here of Wallis and Futuna for instance. Religious differences have also often been fundamental in France, beside catholicism: Protestantism especially in the southern part of the country, or today the Jewish and Muslim religions (with the largest communities in Europe for these two religions), or religions from the Asian far east.
In fact, the Corsicans have largely been involved in the "French adventure" since the Napoleonic era (the Corsican Napoleon is still today the most prestigious, even if controversial, French politician ever) until particularly the colonial history of France in which many Corsicans have actively participated (army, administration, etc.). Same, the most famous French Minister (of Interior) ever until now remains the Corsican - and very conservative - Charles Pasqua (a politician who was for a long time very influential and controversial). And, to end on a poetic note, in French Corsica has the sweet name of "île de beauté", which means island of beauty :-) and whose meaning everyone in France knows.
@@benjamin2382 they are french by migration. Original folks were most close to italy/genova.
It should have belonged to Italy if they had not sold it to the French government of that time…..Alaska should have belonged to Russia if they had not sold it to America…. Much of the central portion of the USA should have belonged to France if they had not sold it!!!!
Selling territories is never a wise thing to do!
Great video! As an Italian speaker, I have to confess that it is a beautiful, yet useless language. I truly feel German or French could get you further ahead in life unless your career path is in architecture, art, fashion or design.
On another note, I feel you missed 2 very important countries and 1 city/region: San Marino and Vatican City (who, it could be argued, spoke Italian before La Repubblica d'Italia was ever a thing) and I might be wrong here, but São Paolo has an existing and quite large Italian speaking population. Even more so than Buenos Aires.
At any rate, great video! Complimenti! 👏🏻👏🏻
Italian is the only Romance language that shares at least 80% (till a maximum of 89%) of vocabulary with any other Romance language. Decently educated Italians can communicate with more than 800M people (and they will be more than 1B in the future) just because of their native language. Furthermore Italian is much easier than French to be understood by speakers of Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese.
@@zaqwsx23 I feel like you're insulted. I speak Italian, Spanish, English and German and I agree...Italian wasn't as hard. But it's not useful in the modernworld. That's what I wanted to convey.
Long live languague italian . Love italian from argentina ❤️❤️✝️🤙
you forgot the usefulness also if your career path his music, archeology, history, gourmet, winery, literature.. but yes, for the rest, wahtever that is, it is totally useless, you're so right..
@@margotmargot4426 at least someone agrees with me. 😂😂 I wasn't trying "talk down" on the Italian language. It was just a useful observation for anyone trying to learn a language to get ahead in life. Nothing more.
you should all learn italian. It is one of the most beautuful lenguage in the world
I guess maybe many of Corsica(Corse) people speak Italian.
Hometown of Napoleone Buonaparte(Napoleon Bonaparte).
Do one on the linguistic situation of Luxembourg plz
Good idea! I was planning on doing one of Switzerland, so Luxembourg is a good idea also. Stay tuned :)
Venezuela's Spanish shows influence from Italian and Italian dialects. Because of my father side family I speak Italian and romagnol dialect, very different from Italian.
Technically you are right about Switzerland's four languages however, Romansch is formally a national language, not an official one, except in canton Grisons, where also German and Italian are official languages.
In the southern part of Brazil there are towns in which "Talian" is spoken. It is a mix of northern Italian accents, due to immigration from this part of italy during the last century.
I would add Uruguay and Brazil as the eighth and ninth countries on this list. Uruguay, in many ways, is a cultural extension of Argentina, while southern Brazil has large rural pockets with Italian being spoken supposedly more than Portuguese (or at least as much).
You're quite right, in Uruguay you must study Italian for a year in High School if you intend to study law or become a notary or sworn translator and about 40% of the population has at least one Italian ancestor.
But regarding that thing of Uruguay being a cultural extension of Argentina, mmm... I know what you mean, but Uruguayan public education system is clearly more advanced than Argentina's...
@@pablorai769 I just mean the overall ethnic base (Italo-Spanish), but many of the particulars are different.
Even in Crimea there are people from Italy who speak Italian
I’m Italian and I knew most of them, but not all! Thank you.
*I love your channel! However, I think it should be pointed out that only in Italy itself, in the Swiss Canton of Ticino and in San Marino is it practical to expect to walk out on the street, address someone in Italian and take it for granted that you will be understood. Aside from that, I believe that the chief reason for someone to learn this language is its fantastic cultural heritage in literature, art and music--unless a person lives in one of these three places or is planning to visit there. Just my two-cents! 🙂*
IN the first half of the 20th centuries there were large neighborhoods of Italian speaking groups, street markets were marked, bartered and sold in Italian, families only spoke Italian and on their jobs....as kids were forced to learn english in school the language infiltrated the families and permeated over time as the old family members that only spoke Italian passed away...
that's really sad
Eritrea is the most missed one here! It is Italy in Africa!
There are also pockets of Italian mostly rail worker immigrants in rural Costa Rica where they speak the language to this day
New York City has Italian speakers. In my neighborhood Sicilian was common.
My grampa's brother which is from Sicily, has his family in Chicago
80 /percent Albania 🇦🇱 speak Italia
Brazil has the largest number of population of Italian descent outside Italy, around 30 million people. The states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Santa Catarina have a large population of Italian descendants. almost the entire population of some cities is of Italian descent. There is a second official language spoken in Brazil called Talian and it is the language of immigrants from the Veneto Region.
Super cool! Someone else had mentioned Talian here. It would be cool to do a video on it some time.
@@TheTravellingLinguist ua-cam.com/video/_HBpRG2PQ9o/v-deo.html
@@TheTravellingLinguist ua-cam.com/video/cla34bTSvIs/v-deo.html
@kissa ja koira so what? Nobody says there no is blacks in Brazil. The subject here is the italians immigrants..
@kissa ja koira Do you have any contribution to make on the subject of Italian immigration in Brazil? Probably not. What do you know about the demographic formation of Brazil? Probably nothing. How dare you call someone you don't know racist? You showed ignorance, prejudice and difficulty understanding the subject covered in the video and in the comments.
You forgot:
1) San Marino
2) Città del Vaticano
3) Corsica island (France)
4) Uruguay (60-70% population has italian roots).
5) Albania (they don’t have italian as first language but quite everybody speak italian astonishingly well)
6) Somalia and Eritrea. Until few years ago a significant part of the population spoke italian as second language, due to past colonial time
Nobody in uruguay speaks italian lmao 😭 and they only speak like argentinians cause they copy everything from here, your country is so poor that your tv programs, news and everything comes from argentina thats why you speak like us but you arent like us you are just a copycat
I want to visit that Romania you mentioned who have a population of 44.5 million and 1.4 million Italian speakers. For sure will be a nice trip because that Romania is on another planet.
Romania have a population of only 19 mil. From them, more of 4 mil. are working abroad because Romania is a very poor country! In Romania exist a small italian comunity, about 3000 person which speak Italian only with family or relatives! It may be about 1 million of Italian speakers amoung the Romanians which work Italy. There work many Romanian women which take care of old man as '' badante"!
@@klmn48 are you sure about “ very “ poor? Why then we see more asian immigrants in Bucharest than in half any Italian cities( except for northern Italy and Rome).... Why do I have to speak english with 80% of food delivery guys in Bucharest? Update to 2023, mio caro amico.