List of Languages of Italy

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Italy currently has one national language: Italian. Several other languages, however, are also spoken throughout the country. Over the centuries many regional languages have developed that some consider dialects of modern Italian. Examples include Milanese, spoken near the city of Milan, Neapolitan, spoken near Naples, Sicilian, spoken on Sicily, etc. However, to call these languages dialects is misleading. Many evolved along the same path modern Italian did and have literary traditions of their own, even though they are generally not standardized. They also have their own grammar and lexicon.

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