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The language we speak, the heritage we carry: what connects us to Italy today

By: Francesca Bezzone

There are more than 16 million Americans who describe themselves as having Italian ancestry, according to the US Census Bureau, yet only about half a million people in the country report speaking Italian at home.

The figures measure different things, of course: one records family origins, the other the language people use in their households, and neither tells us how many Italian Americans understand Italian or have studied it. 

Source: https://italoamericano.org

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