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Italian

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Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European family, native to Italy and also spoken in San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland and parts of Slovenia and Croatia (Istria).

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
ita 1
Speaker Count
65,000,000 1
2022 native-speaker estimate from the article infobox; a further total estimate of about 85 million, without a stated year, is also given and is not used here as the identifying key.
Region
Italian peninsula; also native to Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland, Slovenia (Istria), and Croatia (Istria) 1
Italian
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Source Wikipedia: Italian Language

Written In

Latin Script, Scripts
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Italian Language
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  • Lead section
    Italian (italiano ... or lingua italiana ...) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    ita
  • Infobox, Speakers (Native)
    Approximately 65 million (2022)
  • Infobox, Region
    Italian peninsula; also native to Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland, Slovenia (Istria), and Croatia (Istria)
  • In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
    Indo-European > Italic > Latino-Faliscan > Latin > Romance > Italo-Western > Italo-Dalmatian > Italo-Romance > Tuscan > Northern Tuscan > Florentine > Italian
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