what language does the country italy speak?
Italian Language
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 = = = Social and political structures in Italy = = = 

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 After the decentralization of political power in late antiquity , Latin developed locally into branches that became the Romance languages , such as Spanish , Portuguese , French , Italian and Romanian , and a large number of minor languages and dialects . Today , more than 900 million people are native speakers worldwide . 

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 Italy : 11 @,@ 610 ( 9 @.@ 3 percent of immigrants ) 

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 As an international language of learning and literature , Latin itself continued as an active medium of expression for diplomacy and for intellectual developments identified with Renaissance humanism up to the 17th century , and for law and the Roman Catholic Church to the present . 

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 Italian translations include those published by Fratelle Bassaglia around 1788 and Boringherieri in 1959 . 
