Italian (people)
|
|
| Total population | |
|---|---|
|
c. 135 million (Italian citizens: c. 60 million; Italian ancestry: c. 75 million) |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Italy c. 55,000,000 |
|
 Brazil
|
23,047,494 |
 Argentina
|
20,500,000 |
 United States
|
17,250,211 |
 Venezuela
|
1,736,766 |
 France
|
1,530,563 |
 Canada
|
1,488,425 |
 Peru
|
1,400,000 |
 Uruguay
|
1,055,220 |
 Australia
|
916,121 |
 Germany
|
830,000 |
 Switzerland
|
545,274 |
 Belgium
|
451,825 |
 Chile
|
184,997 |
 United Kingdom
|
130,000 |
 Mexico
|
85,000 |
 South Africa
|
77,400 |
 Spain
|
38,694 |
 Austria
|
29,287 |
 Albania
|
19,000 |
 Croatia
|
17,807 |
 New Zealand
|
3,795 |
 Czech Republic
|
3,503 |
 Romania
|
3,203 |
| Languages | |
| Italian and other languages (Corsican · Sardinian · Sicilian · Neapolitan · Emilian-Romagnol · Ligurian · Piedmontese · Lombard · Venetian · Friulian · Ladin · Romansh · Istriot) | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholic (predominantly) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Romance peoples, Swiss people | |
c. 135 million
Italians (Italian: italiani [itaˈljaːni]) are a nation and ethnic group native to Italy who share a common culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a native tongue. Legally, Italians are citizens of the Italian Republic, regardless of ancestry or country of residence (though the principle of jus sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favourably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and from ethnic Italians living in territories adjacent to the Italian Peninsula. The majority of Italian nationals are native speakers of Standard Italian, though many Italians speak other languages native to Italy (often colloquially referred to as "Italian dialects").
In 2014, in addition to about 55 million Italians in Italy (91% of the Italian national population), Italian-speaking autonomous groups are found in neighbouring nations: about half a million are in Switzerland and a large population is in France, and there are smaller groups in Slovenia and Croatia, primarily in Istria and Dalmatia. Because of the wide-ranging diaspora, about 5 million Italian citizens and nearly 80 million people of full or partial Italian ancestry live outside of their own homeland, most notably in parts of Europe, the Americas and Australia.
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