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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

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

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

7
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City

1.4 Second Language

Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

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

1.7 Regulated By

Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

French and Portuguese Languages

1.10 Derived From

Latin

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

21
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

16
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

ciao

3.2 Thank You

grazie

3.3 How Are You?

Come stai?

3.4 Good Night

buonanotte

3.5 Good Evening

buonasera

3.6 Good Afternoon

buon pomeriggio

3.7 Good Morning

buongiorno

3.8 Please

Per Favore

3.9 Sorry

scusate

3.10 Bye

arrivederci

3.11 I Love You

Ti amo

3.12 Excuse Me

Scusami

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Romanesco

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Lazio

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00
Rank: 21 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Central Italian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Tuscan

4.3.1 Where They Speak

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

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

15
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

78.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.90 %
Rank: 22 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

64.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

14.00 million
Rank: 20 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Italiano

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Italiano

5.3.4 French Name

italien

5.3.5 German Name

Italienisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[itaˈljaːno]

5.5 Ethnicity

Italians

6 History

6.1 Origin

960 BC

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Romance

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Italian

6.3.3 Language Position

27
Rank: 23 (Overall)
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1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

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

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

it

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

ita

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

ita

7.3 ISO 639 3

ita

7.4 ISO 639 6

itas

7.5 Glottocode

ital1282

7.6 Linguasphere

51-AAA-q

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 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.