Italy Ethnic Groups

Italian ethnic groups is a very sensitive subject. Italian outside Italy are often classified as part of a single ethnic group. Inside Italy only minorities and immigrants are considered "ethnic groups". Some Italias consider their nation a multiethnic one. Others tend to look at Italy a single-ethnic nation. Others prefer to ignore the question.

Following language and folk culture differencies, scholars have been offering different ethnic classifications of Italy. One possible ethnic classification can be find in Felipe Fernández-Armesto´s Guide to the Peoples of Europe, The Times Book, London, 1994:

Piedmontese

Valdaostans and Waldensias

Lombards

Friulians

Triestines

Slovenes

Corsicans

Sardinians

Ligurians

Veneti

Central Italians

Sammarinesi

South Italians

Sicialians

Maltese