Central Italian

Central Italian
Native to	Italy
Region	Umbria, Lazio (except the southeast), central Marche, small parts of southernmost Tuscany, and northwestern Abruzzo
Native speakers	~3,000,000[citation needed] (2006)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italo-Romance Central Italian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	51-AAA-ra ... -rba
Dialects that maintain a distinction between final /-u/ and /-o/ are outlined in red.   Area Perimediana   Area Mediana

Central Italian (Italian: dialetti mediani) refers to the dialects of Italo-Romance spoken in the so-called Area Mediana, which covers a swathe of the central Italian peninsula. Area Mediana is also used in a narrower sense to describe the southern part, in which case the northern one may be referred to as the Area Perimediana, a distinction that will be made throughout this article. The two areas are split along a line running approximately from Rome in the southwest to Ancona in the northeast.^[1]