13th century Florentine writers are responsible for the literary origin of the standard Italian language; its grammar and lexicon have remained almost entirely fixed and unchanged since then. However, the average person has always used local vernacular, and Italian dialects developed so differently from the standard written language that some people could not understand the standard version of the language when the nation was unified in the 19^th century. The diversity of spoken languages in the peninsula was considered to be unimportant in the history of the Italian language and have continually provoked serious communication problems. After the unification, these dialects have declined gradually with exposure to contemporary mass media, such as newspapers and television. Following the standardization processes of written and spoken Italian, Italians now have an ideal standard language that reflects the community, but standard Italian continues to change as it absorbs a variety of so-called `new-standard` language. In this paper, these new linguistic forms that have entered into the domain of standard language will be examined.