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The Italian language counts 62 million native speakers worldwide, which makes it the 20th most spoken native language in the world, and by 125 million speakers as a second language. Very large emigrant communities each consisting of over 500,000 people still speaking Italian are found in Argentina, Brazil, Canada and the United States.
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Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (2012). The Italian Language in the European Information Society. In: Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) The Italian Language in the Digital Age. White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30776-8_8
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