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The world languages have been be grouped into families of languages which have similarities. Major groupings are the Indo-European languages, the Afro-Asiatic languages, and the Sino-Tibetan languages.

Language is a system of gestures, grammar, signs, sounds, symbols, and words which is used to represent and communicate concepts, ideas, meanings, and thoughts; language is a "semantic code".

The study of language is linguistics, an academic discipline founded by Ferdinand de Saussure. Those who speak a language are part of that language's linguistic community.Learn More

Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Standard Italian is based on Tuscan dialects and is somewhat intermediate between the languages of Southern Italy and the Gallo-Romance languages of the North.

The long-established Tuscan standard has, over the last few decades, been slightly eroded by the variety of Italian spoken in Milan, the economic capital of Italy. Italian has double (or long) consonants, like Latin (but unlike most modern Romance languages, e.g. French and Spanish). As in most Romance languages (with the notable exception of French), stress is distinctive..Learn More This information comes from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. This is a great online resource for learning.

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