About 0.2% is Albanian speakers that are mainly in southern parts and also Greek and Croatian Speakers.

It is also known as romance language and spoken by 70 million peoples as their first language, about 50 million or more as second that makes total number of 120 million speakers in country. It is official language of the San Marino and primary language of the Vatican City. Italian Standard language is adopted by state after unification and is based on the Tuscan, somewhat intermediate in between italo-Dalmatian language of northern and south Italian languages.

History of Italian language is so long while modern standard of this language was shaped largely by the relatively some recent events. Early surviving texts that can definitely called Italian are formulae legal to the region of Benevento, which is dating from the early 960-963. Italy has always-distinctive dialects for city science; latter now it has considerable variety. As the Tuscan is derived from Italian and it has came to use throughout nation, but features of the local speech were also naturally adopted from various versions of the regional Italian language.

In contacts to dialects of the northern Italy, dialects of southern Italian were largely untouched by Franco-Occitan, introduced and influence to Italy. Even in case of northern Italian some scholars are very careful and not to overstate effects of the outsiders on natural indigenous developments of languages.