Dialects spoken in Italy 2018, by number of speakers
The most spoken dialect in Italy is South Italian. This macro-group includes varieties spoken in the regions of Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Abruzzo, Apulia, and Molise as well as in some areas of Lazio, Marche, and Umbria, three regions of the Center. As of 2018, South Italian counted 7.5 million speakers. The second most spoken dialect, Sicilian, had about five million speakers.