Italian: italiani | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
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Languages | |
Italian and other languages of Italy | |
Religion | |
Christianity (Catholic Church)[2] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Greeks, Maltese people and other Romance peoples |
Italians (Italian: italiani Italian pronunciation: [itaˈljaːni]) are a Romance[3][4][5] ethnic group native to the Italian peninsula. Italians have a common culture, history, ancestry and language.[6][7]
We could say that contemporary Europe is made up of three large groups of peoples, divided on the criteria of their origin and linguistic affiliation. They are the following: the Romanic or neo-Latin peoples (Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Romanians, etc.), the Germanic peoples (Germans proper, English, Dutch, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, etc.), and the Slavic peoples (Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, etc.)
The Italians are a Latin people, a mixture of Germanic and Mediterranean peoples
Romance (Latin) nations... Italians