Tuscan dialect

Tuscan
toscano, vernacolo
Native toItaly
RegionTuscany (except parts of the Province of Massa-Carrara)
Umbria (western border with Tuscany)
Corsica (as a variety)
Sardinia, Gallura (as a variety), Sassari (as a variety)
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ita-tus
GlottologNone
Linguasphere51-AAA-qa
IETFit-u-sd-it52
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Tuscan (Italian: dialetto toscano [djaˈlɛtto tosˈkaːno; di.a-]; locally: vernacolo) is a set of Italo-Dalmatian varieties of Romance spoken in Tuscany, Corsica, and Sardinia.

Standard Italian is based on Tuscan, specifically on its Florentine dialect, and it became the language of culture throughout Italy[1] because of the prestige of the works by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini. It later became the official language of all the Italian states and of the Kingdom of Italy when it was formed.

  1. ^ "storia della lingua in "Enciclopedia dell'Italiano"". www.treccani.it.