The Italian language is spoken by people in places.
The Holy See , also referred to as the See of Rome , ( Santa Sede Sancta Sedes [ ˈsaŋkta ˈsɛdes ] ) is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome , the episcopal see of the Pope , and an independent sovereign entity . Italian language . Italian is spoken by small minorities in places such as France ( especially in Corsica ) , Montenegro , Crimea and Tunisia and by large expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia . Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages . Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world . Italian was adopted by the state after the Unification of Italy , having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society .