Italian-speaking

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Able to speak Italian

adjective

: de habla italiana

Nonetheless, his plans included considerable attention to the problem of communicating with Italian-speaking residents of Baltimore.
Italian-speaking children
Italian-speaking Catholics

Examples

Before we consider the uses of missionary discourse among Italian-speaking Catholics, the term "missionary" itself cries out for analysis.

Academic text (2003)
Leonard and Bortolini (1998) documented the same tendency in the production of function words by Italian-speaking children with SLI.

Academic text (2013)
In this study, we examined whether sentence production demands might influence the degree to which Italian-speaking children with SLI produced clitics.

Academic text (2013)
In conclusion, our results are consistent not only with other descriptions of phonology in Italian children but also with some results of studies of phonological disorders in older Italian-speaking children.

Academic text (2012)
V. Italian-speaking Catholics, modern missionary discourse, historiographical critique

Academic text (2003)
Conversely, why were there no debates among Polish, French, Slovak, or Italian-speaking Catholics about the orthodoxy of Irish wakes?

Academic text (2003)
He is fluent in Italian and often converses with his Italian-speaking relatives during family gatherings.
The Italian-speaking tour guide shared fascinating stories about the history of the city.
In the classroom, she focused on helping her Italian-speaking students improve their language skills.

Surface Forms

Italian-speaking positive

Morphology

Italian-speaking = Italian + speaking (transparent) = Italian + speak + ing

The meaning is a straightforward compound interpretation: someone who is Italian-speaking speaks Italian.

Etymology

Italian-speaking combines Italian, the name of the country and its language, and speaking, which means 'talking' or 'able to use a language'. So it simply means someone who is 'able to speak Italian'.