Is Italian a nearly extinct language? Unlike the rest of their sisters (spanish, french, portuguese, etc.) the only country that uses it is Italy and no one else.
Native speakers
64 million Italian proper, native and native bilingual (2013)[1][2][3]
85 million (L1 plus L2 speakers) (2012)[
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In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages; it is studied and learned in all the confederation schools and spoken, as a native language, in the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Graubünden (predominately in Italian Grigioni) and by the Italian immigrants that are present in large numbers in German- and French-speaking cantons. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of the Vatican City.[10] It is co-official in Slovenian Istria and in Istria County in Croatia.
Hunty I've been to Italy 8 times and I've yet to meet an Italian who can speak another language.
No way its dying when the Italians are clinging to it for dear life.
Are you serious? O_O Italian is less talked as first language because italy wasn't a big imperialist nation. No big colony. But it's a very common second language in the US (due to a big italian-native population) and in South America for the same reason...
No, they were late to colonize and none of them lasted that long so none of them kept Italian as an official language. Doesn't mean the language is dead.
Hunty I've been to Italy 8 times and I've yet to meet an Italian who can speak another language.
No way its dying when the Italians are clinging to it for dear life.
This is not even true. We're not worst than spanish people, or even french people. Our language is simply an historycal one, and it's not gonna die only because the rest of the world speak english
