Italophone

A italophone is a person speaking the Italian Italian is spoken primarily:

in Italy and with San Marino where it is national language,
with the the Vatican, second official language with the Latin ,
in Suisse, one of the 4 official languages (with the German , the French and the Romanche), accounting for approximately 6,5% of the Swiss speakers. According to the census of 2000, Italian is the principal language of 470.961 people inhabitants the Confederation.

in the canton of the Tessin, official language and the principal language of 83% of the population is 254.997 inhabitants.
in the canton of the Grison , official language with the romanche and German (majority) and principal language of 10,2% of the population, mainly in the southernmost valleys: Valley Mesolcina, Valley Calanca, Valley Bregaglia and Val Poschiavo.

in Slovenia where it is official language with the Slovenien in the 3 coastal communes Capodistria/Koper, island of Istrie and Pirano
in Istrie (Croatia) where it is official language with the Croatian (towns of Parenzo/Poreč, Pola/Pula, Umago/Umag and Rovigno/Rovinj)

There exist many communities italophones in:

Dalmatie (Croatia)
Monaco
Tunisia
the United States (approximately 4 million speakers, especially in the big cities)

She is also spoken in

France:

Corsica, by its proximity with Italy and the Corsica is strongly related with the Toscan
Nice, Menton and the Royasque of the valley of the Roya

Malta where it was official language until 1934, spoke still per many inhabitants and included/understood by all.
Albania
In Latin America (Argentinian, Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay in particular). Italian seems much to have influenced the Spanish and the Portuguese such as they is spoken in Argentine, in Uruguay, with the Mexico and the southernmost Brésil, where the presence of Italian emigrants was massive.

In the old Italian colonies of Africa

Ethiopia
Érythrée
Somalia, university language until 1991
Libya, commercial language with English

vernacular Language in the catholic hierarchy because of the stays of the latter in the Vatican.

The accessibility of the many Italian hertzian chains in the Seventies and Eighties in countries bordering with the programs limited on a national television, also made it possible to maintain a certain comprehension of Italian in these communities (ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Tunisia)

See too

Italian Language
Distribution of the italophones in the world

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