Central Italian

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Italiano centrale
Spoken in:	Italy
Region:	Lazio and east
Total speakers:	approx. 5 million
Language family:	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italiano centrale
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	`it`
ISO 639-2:	`ita`
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	`ita` — Italian
Distribution of Central Italian dialects

Italiano centrale is a group of western Romance dialects spoken in Latium, Umbria, central Marche, extreme southern Tuscany and a little part of Abruzzo in central Italy. These dialects have slight differences among them, they are closly related to Tuscan and all are mutually intelligible with each other as well as with standard Italian.

The following dialects are part of Central Italian:

Marchigiano (central part of Marche)
Umbrian dialects (Umbria)
Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano (L'Aquila and Province of Rieti)
Tuscia dialect (Tuscia, northern part of Latium)
Romanesco (Rome)
- Giudeo-Romanesco
Castelli Romani dialect (Castelli Romani)
Ciociaro (Ciociaria, southern part of Latium)

Because Rome is the most important cultural center of the dialect region, sometimes "Romanesco" is used to refer to the whole of Central Italian including all its dialects.