Italian is a Romance language descended from Latin and the official language of Italy, San Marino and Vatican City, as well as one of the four national languages of Switzerland, where it is spoken mainly in Ticino. Native speakers are estimated at around 65 million. The standard language grew out of the literary Tuscan of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, and it coexists with regional varieties, from Venetian and Lombard to Sicilian and Neapolitan, which many linguists class as distinct languages. Italian is written in the Latin alphabet. Emigration spread it widely; communities of speakers and their descendants live in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and the UK, where Italians have settled since the nineteenth century.
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