Italian language in the United States

Assimilation has played a large role in the decreasing number of Italian speakers today.

[12] The organization which manages these exams, the College Board, ended the AP Italian program because it was "losing money" and had failed to add 5,000 new students each year.

ItalianAware aims to donate 100 various books on the Italian/Italian American experience, written in Italian or English, to the Brooklyn Public Library by the end of 2010.

Although many other minority languages have official status in Italy neither Sicilian nor Neapolitan are recognized by the Italian Republic.

This limits Italy's responsibility in the preservation of regional languages that it has not chosen to protect by domestic law.

Although the Italian language in the United States is much less used today than it has been previously, there are still several Italian-only media outlets, among which are the St. Louis newspaper Il Pensiero and the New Jersey daily paper America Oggi, as well as ICN Radio.

The magazine and a periodic newsletter offer prose, poetry and comment in Sicilian, with adjacent English translations.