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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

7
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

21
Rank: 3 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

16
Rank: 6 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
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

15
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

27
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

it

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

Origin of Italian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Italian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Italian language states that it was put to use in 960 BC. The history of Italian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Italian Language History. Italian has no early forms. Italian is the standard form of Italian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Italian Language.

Italian population

Italian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Italian language. Italian language is spoken by 78.00 million people in the world. Most of the Italian population lies in the Italian Speaking Countries. Italian language is spoken as first language by 64.00 million people and as second language by about 14.00 million people. Get to know Italian speaking population in detail.

Italian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Italian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Italian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Italian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Italian language

Check out all the information about Italian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Italian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Italian Speaking Countries, Italian speaking continents and Italian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Italian countries knowing common Italian Greetings will help you in communicating with Italian people.