Italians

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For a specific analysis o the population o Italy, see Demografics o Italy.
Italians
Famous Italians Mosaic.png

Individuals namit frae left tae richt:

1st row: Alessandro Volta, Enrico Fermi, Lorenzo de Medici, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Giacomo Leopardi

2nd row: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Federico Fellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Dante Alighieri

3rd row: Anna Magnani, Ugo Foscolo, Umberto Eco, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Galileo Galilei

4th row: Antonio Vivaldi, Guglielmo Marconi, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Alessandro Manzoni, Grazia Deledda

5th row: Giosuè Carducci, Luciano Pavarotti, Niccolò Machiavelli, Marco Polo, Valentino Rossi

6th row: Sergio Leone, Luigi Pirandello, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Salvatore Quasimodo.
Tot population
c. 124 million
Regions wi signeeficant populations
 Italy        55,695,126 [1]
 Brazil32,047,494[2]
 Argentinae16,427,786[2]
 Unitit States15,728,020[2]
 Fraunce1,903,890[2]
 Canadae1,445,335[3]
 Uruguay1,055,220[2]
 Australie852,418[4]
 Germany695,160[2]
  Swisserland521,146[2]
 Belgium376,091[2]
 Unitit Kinrick255,403[2]
 Chile184,997[2]
 Venezuela126,553[2]
 Sooth Africae77,400[2]
 Spain38,694[2]
Ither kintras<20,000
Leids
Historically Laitin, noudays Italian an ither leids.
(Sicilian · Neapolitan · Corsican · Sardinie · Piedmontese · Ligurie · Lombard · Venetian · Friulan)
Releegion
Predominantly Roman Catholic.
Relatit ethnic groups
Ither Laitin fowks: French • Portuguese • Romanies • Romansch • Spainyie • Walloons
Historically relatit: Greeks • Maltese

Italians (Italian: italiani) are an ethnic group native o Italy that share a common Italian cultur, ancestry an speak the Italian leid as a mither tongue. Legally, Italians are citizens o the Italian Republic, regardless o ancestry or kintra o residence (tho the principle o jus sanguinis is uised extensively an arguably mair favorably in the Italian naitionality law), an are distinguisht frae fowk o Italian strynd an frae ethnic Italians livin in territories adjacent tae the Italian Peninsulae.[5]

Notes[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. ↑ "15° Censimento generale della popolazione e delle abitazioni" (PDF) (in Italian). ISTAT. 27 aprile 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 "Italiani nel Mondo: diaspora italiana in cifre" (PDF) (in Italian). Migranti Torino. 30 April 2004. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories - 20% sample data". Statistics Canada. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "A Picture of the Nation: Cultural diversity overview" (PDF). Australian Bureau of Statistics. 29 January 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Criteria underlying legislation concerning citizenship". Italian Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
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