| Swiss Italian | |
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| Italiano svizzero (Italian) | |
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| Native to | Switzerland |
| Ethnicity | Swiss |
Native speakers | 720,000 (2019 census)[1] L2: 2 million[2] |
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Official language in | Switzerland |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
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The Italian language in Italian Switzerland or Swiss Italian (Italian: italiano svizzero, Italian: [itaˈljano ˈzvittsero]) is the variety of the Italian language taught in the Italian-speaking area of Switzerland. While this variety is mainly spoken in the canton of Ticino and in the southern part of Grisons (about 270,000 native speakers), Italian is spoken natively in the whole country by about 700,000 people: Swiss Italians, Italian immigrants and Swiss citizens with Italian citizenship.[3][4]
The Swiss variety of Italian is distinct from the traditional vernaculars of the Italian-speaking area, which are classified as varieties of the Gallo-Italic Lombard language.
- ^ Discover Switzerland – Language – facts and figures
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- ^ "Anzahl der Doppelbürger in der Schweiz nach zweiter Staatsangehörigkeit im Jahr 2020" (in German). Retrieved 10 January 2023.