List of countries by Italian-speaking population

The distribution of Italian language by country.

Italian language is spoken in many countries of the world. Ethnologue, 2025 [1] lists 66 million first and second language speakers. Like Portuguese, Spanish and French it originated in the Western Europe and belongs to the Romance languages classification. Although Rome is the capital of Italy, standard Italian is mainly heard in Milan and the North.

Spoken by the countries

In some areas in Western countries the language is also spoken across in New England (U.S.), Saskatchewan (Canada), Costa Rica and Panama.

The Argentine Italian is one of the major dialects for native Argentines, along with the Spanish language.

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