Italian is an official language in italy, san marino, switzerland (ticino and the grisons), and vatican city, and it has official minority status in croatia, slovenia (istria), romania, [6][9] bosnia and herzegovina, [6] and in 6 municipalities of brazil List of official languages by country and territorythis is a list of official languages by country and territory It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. The article also lists lots of languages which have no administrative mandate as an official language, generally describing these as de facto official languages. This is a list of lists of countries and territories by official language List of countries and territories where afrikaans or dutch are official languages list of countries and territories where arabic is an official language list of countries and territories where chinese is an official language
Italy, [a] officially the italian republic, [b] is a country in southern and western europe [c] it consists of a peninsula that extends into the mediterranean sea, with the alps on its northern land border, as well as nearly 800 islands, notably sicily and sardinia. Italian is an official language in italy, switzerland, san marino, vatican city and western istria (in slovenia and croatia) It used to have official status in albania, malta and monaco, where it is still widely spoken, as well as in former italian east africa and italian north africa regions where it plays a significant role in various sectors Italian is also spoken by large expatriate. The government of italy made italian their official language in 1999, [6][7] and some nations (such as mexico and australia) have never declared de jure official languages at the national level
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