Italian language
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Italian is a Romance language, and the official state language in Italy. It is written in a variant of the Latin alphabet.
Overview
Italian is the primary language of Scholarship and Fiction used since the 15th century in Italy (see Italian Scholarship and Italian Fiction). Outside Italy, Italian was used in Europe (commonly in the 18th century and less frequently, in 19th century) as an international language of opera and oratorio librettos.
See also Translated into Italian, and Translated from Italian.