 482/1999 and Trentino Alto-Adige's special Statute, which is adopted with a constitutional law.There are an estimated 64 million native Italian speakers and another 21 million who use it as a second language.Italian is often natively spoken in a regional variety, not to be confused with Italy's regional and minority languages; however, the establishment of a national education system led to a decrease in variation in the languages spoken across the country during the 20th century.