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Italian, often considered one of the most beautiful languages in the world, is a Romance language still spoken in the same region where Latin first spread. The new language emerged only centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire; the standard form spoken today comes from the Tuscan dialect of the city of Florence. The great Italian poets Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio all wrote in Tuscan, which contributed to the rise of the language. Today, Italian is used mainly in Europe: it’s an official language of Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, and Vatican City and is also spoken by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia. There are about 65 million native speakers of Italian and another 20 million speak Italian as a second language. FIND OUT MORE>>