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Italian and the other major Romance languages of French, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish are all Indo-European.

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Italian is actually a Romance language, which is a sub-group of the Indo-European language family. It is descended from Latin and is spoken primarily in Italy and parts of Switzerland. Other Romance languages include Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

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