I've raxxed my brain on the Italian language but cant think of anywhere else that speaks it.?

Question

I beleive Spanish is the largest talked language with English close behind, right or wrong ?

Answer 1

The following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):
(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Mandarin Chinese (836 million)
2. Hindi (333 million)
3. Spanish (332 million)
4. English (322 million)
5. Bengali (189 million)
6. Arabic (186 million)
7. Russian (170 million)
8. Portuguese (170 million)
9. Japanese (125 million)
10. German (98 million)
11. French (72 million)

Answer 2

However ... Italian and other dialects of Italy, particularly Sicilian and Neapolitan, are spoken by descendants of Italian emigrants in nearly every country of the world, especially in Argentina and the United States, where there are hundreds of thousands of speakers, in Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Spanish and English are geographically the most widely spoken languages in the world ... Spanish has more native speakers than English, and English has the largest number of speakers as a foreign language of all the world's languages. Italian is the world's most popular fourth language - it is the language that most people who already speak three languages learn next.

Answer 3

They speak Italian in the Ticino canton of Switzerland. Corsican is an Italian dialect although most people in Corsica now speak French.

English and Spanish are widely spoken around the world because of colonisation. Italy came to that game rather late. They occupied Abyssinia and various islands in the Med for a while, but not long enough for the language to catch on.

Answer 4

Italy, San Marino, Switzerland and Vatican City are the main places you'll hear Italian spoken.

The number one language in terms of native speakers is Mandarin, followed by Spanish and English.

Answer 5

She is speaking proper Italian; not sure of the accent. I am an American who lived in Sicily for three years and was married to a Sicilian for five years, and I can understand Sicilian almost perfectly. When I hear "Napolitano", the dialect of Naples, I understand very little, yet I understand proper Italian, such as that spoken on their national tv, very well.

Answer 6

You're right! Not many countries speak Itaian other than Italy but there are parts of Swizerland that speak it....obviously it's the part of Swizerland that's closest to the Italian border

Answer 7

Southern Somalians can speak it as they were a colony of Italy. Monaco's own language Monegasque is a dialect of Genovese Italian.

Answer 8

Chinese, then Spanish then English.

Answer 9

actually one third of the population of the earth or more speaks Chinese