In a survey of 2019, 45 percent of Italian respondents declared to speak dialect either often or always. Moreover, 24 percent of interviewees claimed to use the dialect sometimes, while only 17 percent affirmed to never speak any dialect.
Regionally, dialects are more often used in the South.
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Istituto Ixè. (July 22, 2019). How often do you speak dialect? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 18, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1077435/frequency-of-dialect-use-in-italy/
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