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Is Spanish spoken in Italy

Updated: 8/10/2023
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Some of the people speak Spanish. The reason for this is that Italian and Spanish are romances languages and others. But these two languages are extremely similar when spoken and often when written.

I am spanish speaker (my mother language) and have a great knowledge of Italian. But I will put it this way: if an Italian speaker and Spanish speaker find themselves in a conversation; if they speak slow and clear to each other (in their own languages) they can talk forever and understand everything. I did it and use some words ; but there was no need. Also they are places in Italy where they speak Spanish too. Yes and precisely Sardinia where they actually speak Catalan (in the North Western Part) which is not really Spanish but close to.

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Not all parts of Italy. There are similarities between the two languages, with their common origin in Latin. In fact, studying Spanish and Italian simultaneously at evening classes many moons ago, I had to give up Italian after 6 months (I needed Spanish for my work) because I got, e.g. the numbers (uno/uno, due/dos, tre/tres, quattro/cuatro, cinque/cinco etc.) confused all the time.

While Southern Italy used to be a Catalonian Imperial Territory (and thus part of the Spanish Empire), Castilian or what people usually Spanish was never used as a dominant language in Italy; Catalan was.

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Italy is a country in Europe and the people do speak a Latin based language of Italian. Spain is also a country in southern Europe and they speak the Latin based language of Spanish. In some ways the two languages are alike and in others they are not.

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