Tuscan dialect

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Tuscan
toscano, vernacolo
Native to	Italy
Region	Tuscany (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)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italo-Romance Tuscan
Dialects	Florentine Corsican Bagitto †
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	ita-tus
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	51-AAA-qa
IETF	it-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.