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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 2
Speaker Count
65,000,000 2
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.
Status
Living 2
Wikipedia article on Italian: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27.
Attested From (Year)
from 901 5
Region
Italian peninsula; also native to Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland, Slovenia (Istria), and Croatia (Istria) 2
Classification
Language Kind
Safe 1
Official Status
Official Language 2
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Word Order
SVO 3
Difficulty for an English Speaker
Category I 4
Italian
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Latin Script

Italian
Connections

In Family

Indo-European, Language Families
Source Wikipedia: Italian Language

Written In

Latin Script, Scripts
In the Other Atlases

Cases Where Used

Laudato Si'

Also in Divinity Atlas: used in this subject.

The Lateran Treaty

Also in Divinity Atlas: used in this subject.

Lateran Treaty

Also in History Atlas: used in this subject.

Nazareno Pact

Also in History Atlas: used in this subject.

Source Wikipedia: Nazareno PactLead
Quote, Lead
The Nazareno Pact (Italian: patto del Nazareno)
Reichskonkordat

Also in History Atlas: used in this subject.

Source Wikipedia: ReichskonkordatArticle text
Quote, Article text
Article 34 This Concordat, whose German and Italian texts shall have equal binding force, shall be ratified and the certificates of ratification shall be exchanged as soon as possible.
Statuto Albertino

Also in History Atlas: used in this subject.

Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine

Also in History Atlas: used in this subject.

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)

Also in History Atlas: used in this subject.

Treaty of Wuchale

Also in History Atlas: used in this subject.

Original Language Of

Leonardo Sciascia

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Ludovico Ariosto

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Luigi Pirandello

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Manifesto of Futurism

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Orlando Furioso

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Ottava Rima

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Source Ottava rima (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
Quote, Lead paragraph
rhyming stanza form of Italian origin
Petrarch

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Primo Levi

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Sir Thomas More

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Betrothed

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Black Corsair

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Day of the Owl

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Decameron

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Divine Comedy

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Last of the Just

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Leopard

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Mystery of the Black Jungle

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Name of the Rose

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Pirates of Malaysia

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Prince

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Queen of the Caribbean

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Shape of Water

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Terracotta Dog

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Tigers of Mompracem

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Two Tigers

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Umberto Eco

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

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Located In

Italy

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is located.

Found In

Europe

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Istria

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Glottolog: Italian (Glottolog languoid ital1282)
GlottologEndangerment, AES status
Quote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
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2. Wikipedia: Italian Language
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Italian (italiano ... or lingua italiana ...) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    ita
  • Article text
    As of 2022, Australia had the highest number of students learning Italian in the world.
  • Lead section
    Current estimates indicate that between 68 and 85 million people speak Italian, including approximately 64 million native speakers as of 2024. Italian is an official language in Italy, San Marino, Switzerland (Ticino and part of the Grisons), and Vatican City, and it has official minority status in Croatia, Slovenia (Istria), Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 6 municipalities of Brazil.
  • Infobox, Official language in
    Italy
  • 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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3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Italian / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint page
Quote, Datapoint page
Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SVO
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4. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
Effective Language LearningForeign Service Institute categories list
Quote, Foreign Service Institute categories list
Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours) Languages closely related to English Afrikaans Danish Dutch French Italian Norwegian
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5. Omniglot: Italian language, alphabet and pronunciation
OmniglotLanguage at a glance
Quote, Language at a glance
First written : 10th century
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