Home›More›Articles›Standard Italian Started Out as Tuscany's Regional DialectArticleStandard Italian Started Out as Tuscany's Regional DialectArticlesConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnTuscany, States or Territories Well-attested SourcesTuscany (Wikipedia)Wikimedia FoundationLanguage sectionQuote, Language sectionThe Italian language is actually literary Tuscan itself, specifically the Florentine dialect, only commonly referred to as Italian for political and nationalist reasons.View the SourceAtlas Article VocabularyComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.