Italian leid

Italian is a leid spoken bi aboot 70 million fowk, maistly fowk frae Italy, frae whaur it gets its name. It is an ofeecial leid in Italy, San Marino, Vatican Ceety, Swisserland an in some ceeties o Slovenie an Croatie. It is uised in some pairts o Monaco, Maltae, Albanie, Dodecaneso (Greece), Eritrea, Libie, Ethiopie, Somalie, Tunisie, Slovenie, Croatie an some ither places an aw.

Italian
Italiano, Lingua italiana
Pronunciation	[itaˈljaːno]
Native tae	Italy, Swisserland, San Marino, Vatican Ceety, Istrie Coonty (Croatie) an Slovene Istrie (Slovenie)
Region	Italy, Ticino an soothren Graubünden, Slovene Littoral an wastren Istrie
Native speakers	69 million native speakers in the EU[1] (c.2012)[2] 90 million total speakers L2 speakers: 24 million
Leid faimily	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Wastren Italo-Dalmatian Italian
Writin seestem	Laitin (Italian alphabet) Italian Braille
Signed forms	Italiano segnato "(Signed Italian)"[3] italiano segnato esatto "(Signed Exact Italian)"[4]
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Italy  San Marino   Switzerland  Vatican City  Istrie Coonty (Croatie) Slovene Istrie (Slovenie)  Brazil (Talian dialect in Rio Grande do Sul & Santa Catarina)[5]  European Union OSCE  Sovereign Militar Order o Malta
Recognised minority leid in	Albania  Argentina[6]  Australie[7]  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Corsicae (Fraunce)  Croatia  Eritrea  Ethiopia  Libya  Malta[8]  Monaco  Montenegro  Romania  Slovenia  Somalia  Venezuela[9]
Regulatit bi	Accademia della Crusca (de facto)
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	it
ISO 639-2	ita
ISO 639-3	ita
Glottolog	ital1282[10]
Linguasphere	51-AAA-q
Main leid   Used offeecially in the Italian colonial period; nou seicontary   Lairge Italian-speakin commonties
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Whaur Italian is spoken in Europe.

It is maistly derived frae Laitin, wi some wirds frae Greek, Etruscan an ithergates. It is cried an inflectit leid - that means that the meanin o wirds can be chynged bi chyngin their endins. Italian noons is aither masculine or feminine (thir's grammatical terms, for ordinar anerly indirect adae dae wi gender).

Maist singular masculine noons ends in -o, an maist plural masculine noons ends in -i.

Maist singular feminine noons ends in -a, an maist plural feminine noons ends in -e.

Sae - gatto = male cat, gatta = female cat, gatti = male cats, gatte = female cats

The endin o verbs is awfu complicate, acause they lippen on the tense o the verb (past, praisent, futur an sae on) an on the person o the verb (A, ye , thay etc).^[11]

Frae that - parlo = A speak, parliamo = we speak, parlava = he wis speakin, parlarono = thay spak, parlerò = A will speak, parliamo = lat's speak!

There's gey mony o thir endins tae learn - it is a difficult pairt o Italian. But soondin is semple - there's anerly a puckle rules tae learn, an haurdly ony difficult soonds.

Mony Italian wirds haes entered the Scots leid. Pizza, spaghetti an ravioli is juist some o the fuid wirds that we uise. Mony technical wirds in muisic is Italian, sic as forte an allegro. Mony muisical instruments' names air Italian an aw, sic as cello an tuba. Frae the daurker side o Italian life we get Mafia an vendetta.

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