ISO 639-3 · itaita
Indo-European family
Italian
italiano
Italian is a language of the Italo-Romance branch (Indo-European), spoken in Vatican City, San Marino, Italy and Switzerland. Wikidata counts 64.8 m first-language speakers (2019) and 3 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Romance language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ita- ISO 639-1
it- Glottocode
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- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 43.00, 13.00
- Wikipedia
- 303 language editions
64.8 mfirst-language speakers
3 msecond-language speakers
4countries
2scripts
7levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Italian · italiano |
|---|---|
| Also called | Italian language, Italiana |
| L1 speakers | 64,800,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 3,026,000 (2009) |
| Written in | Italian alphabet, Italian Braille |
| Official in | Vatican City, Italy, Switzerland |
| Grammatical cases | 1 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Italian
The branches above Italian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
