The share of people speaking mainly dialect has dropped from 32% in 1988 to 9.6% in 2024, according to Italy’s national statistics office.
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«Say it in Italian» petition gets 70,000 signatures
A petition urging the nation to say it in Italian and spurn the use of English words creeping into everyday speech has obtained nearly 70,000 signatures, organisers claimed.
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Italians don’t love Italian, Crusca Academy says
Italians don’t really love their language, opening the way to increasing use of Anglicisms on the peninsula, Crusca Academy President Claudio Marazzini.
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