Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
French and Portuguese Languages
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ciao
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
grazie
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Per Favore
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
scusate
  
sorry
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Italiano
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
italien
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
960 BC
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic