About Italian Language | Italian | Alphabets in Italian

Countries

Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City

Second Language

Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia

Regulated By

Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)

Interesting Facts

One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.

Similar To

French and Portuguese Languages

Derived From

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 3 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 6 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks

Rank: 6 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

ciao

Thank You

grazie

How Are You?

Come stai?

Good Night

buonanotte

Good Evening

buonasera

Good Afternoon

buon pomeriggio

Good Morning

buongiorno

Please

Per Favore

Sorry

scusate

Bye

arrivederci

I Love You

Ti amo

Excuse Me

Scusami

Dialects

Dialect 1

Romanesco

Where They Speak

Lazio

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00

Rank: 51 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Central Italian

Where They Speak

Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00

Rank: 47 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Tuscan

Where They Speak

Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.00

Rank: 11 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

78.00 million

Rank: 21 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.90 %

Rank: 23 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

64.00 million

Rank: 18 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

14.00 million

Rank: 36 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Italiano

Alternative Names

Italiano

French Name

italien

German Name

Italienisch

Pronunciation

[itaˈljaːno]

Ethnicity

Italians

History

Origin

960 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Romance

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Italian

Language Position

Rank: 25 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ita

ISO 639 2/B

ita

ISO 639 3

ita

ISO 639 6

itas

Glottocode

ital1282

Linguasphere

51-AAA-q

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Italian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Italian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Italian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Italian. Italian phonology gives Italian vowels and Italian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 16 consonants in Italian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Italian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Italian language is given in detail in this section.

All Italian countries

Want to explore all Italian countries? About Italian language serves you with all Italian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Italian as official language are called as Italian countries.

Countries that use Italian as their National Language are: Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Italian as second language are: Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Italian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Italian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Italian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Italian language.Learn Italian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: ciao
Thank you: grazie
Good Morning: buongiorno
Good Evening: buonasera
Good Afternoon: buon pomeriggio

All Italian Language Codes

Get to know all Italian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Italian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.