57 million people in Italy speak the Italian language. Italian is also spoken in Austria, Switzerland, as well as Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia, which were once Italian colonies. Italian is considered one of the oldest, most romantic languages spoken today. The modern Italian spoken today is a direct decendent of Latin. Italy became unified as [...]

The descendent of Latin, the language spoken in the Roman empire, Italian is now spoken by more than 60 million people. Unlike its ancestor, however, Italian has grammar that is considered much easier to learn.