The Italian language is spoken in France.
Corsican language . It is spoken and written on the islands of Corsica ( France ) and northern Sardinia ( Italy ) . Corsican was long the vernacular alongside Italian , the official language in Corsica until 1859 ; afterwards Italian was replaced by French , owing to the acquisition of the island by France from the Republic of Genoa in 1768 . 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 .