Central Italian

Central Italian
Native toItaly
RegionUmbria, Lazio (except the southeast), central Marche, southern edge of Tuscany, northwestern Abruzzo
Native speakers
~3,000,000[citation needed] (2006)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
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Central Italian (Italian: dialetti mediani “central dialects”) refers to the indigenous varieties of Italo-Romance spoken in much of Central Italy.