Italy has 34 native languages in use today.

Italy has 34 native languages in use today.

There are approximately 34 native living spoken languages and related dialects in Italy, most of which are largely independent Romance languages.

Official: Italian

Foreign: English (34%); French (16%); Spanish (11%); German (5%); Other regional ...

Signed: Italian Sign Language

Italian 97.41%

English 13.74%

French 8.46%

Spanish 6.56%

German 2.06%

Basque 1.04%

Arabic 0.65%

Croatian 0.43%

Italian is the native language for Italy, but around 29 percent of the population speaks English. In America, where Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language, when you count native speakers and Spanish students, only about 16 percent of the population speak it.