Who speaks Italian?

Italian is spoken by around 60 to 100 million people worldwide. It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and in particular to the Romance language group.
Italian is a language with many dialects. We can distinguish approximately 20 dialects based on geographical regions.

We can easily communicate in Italian in Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland and Istria, where it is an official language. Knowledge of the language will ensure easy communication in Albania, Ethiopia, Libya and Malta. It is also used in many other countries around the world where there are large Italian expatriate communities.

History of the Italian language

The development of Romance languages began after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, when the role of Latin gradually declined, giving way to the development of regional languages. Some argue that they evolved from vernacular languages existing alongside Latin. Italian is considered the language most closely related to Latin. The current form of the Italian language largely stems from the influence of medieval writers – Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, thanks to whom Tuscan became a literary language. During the Renaissance, the complete Italian grammar was created. It is difficult to distinguish the stages of the development of the Italian language, as they proceed very smoothly.

Using Italian in business

The Italian language does not play as important a role in the international arena as English, but knowledge of it is very useful and influences good business relations with people using this language.
Any company planning to start business in Italy or Switzerland should try to recruit at least one employee who is fluent in Italian.

Italian translators

Skrivanek Bulgaria provides professional translations of texts from and into Italian. We collaborate with an experienced staff of translators specialized in various disciplines. We can provide both standard and certified translations. Our offer is addressed to companies from all sectors (including specialized sectors: industrial, technical, medical, legal and many others). We can translate an agreement from Italian or translate company documents, invoices, catalogues, advertising slogans, reports, business correspondence, deeds, powers of attorney, forms and other materials, also classified. Our Italian translators will not only ensure the accuracy of the translation, but also the effectiveness of the text, its appropriate style and adaptation to the cultural context, both in terms of the language itself and the country.

The most frequently placed orders for translations to and from Italian:

standard and business translations to and from Italian; express translations; certified translations; editing; localization; website translation into Italian; DTP – graphic preparation of documents; interpreting from and into Italian – simultaneous and consecutive.

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