Italian language

E3588

Romance language national language standardized language

The Italian language is a Romance language spoken primarily in Italy and parts of Switzerland, known for its Latin roots, melodic sound, and central role in art, music, and culinary culture.

Aliases (2)

Italian ×30
Standard Italian ×5

Statements (70)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Romance language → national language → standardized language →
ancestor	Vulgar Latin →
branch	Romance languages →
closelyRelatedTo	French language → Portuguese language → Romanian language → Spanish language →
coOfficialLanguageIn	Switzerland →
developedFrom	Tuscan literary tradition →
family	Indo-European languages →
hasDialects	Emilian-Romagnol → Friulian → Ligurian → Lombard → Neapolitan → Piedmontese → Sardinian → Sicilian → Venetian →
hasFeature	grammatical gender → melodic prosody → phonemic vowel length absence → rich verb conjugation →
ISO639-1Code	it →
ISO639-2Code	ita →
ISO639-3Code	ita →
notableAuthorLanguageOf	Dante Alighieri → Francesco Petrarca → Giovanni Boccaccio →
officialLanguageOf	Italy → San Marino → Switzerland → Vatican City →
officialStatusIn	European Union →
primaryCountry	Italy →
regulatoryBody	Accademia della Crusca →
spokenBy	over 60 million people in Italy → tens of millions of native speakers →
spokenIn	Albania → Argentina → Australia → Belgium → Brazil → Canada → Croatia → Eritrea → France → Germany → Libya → Malta → Monaco → San Marino → Slovenia → Somalia → Switzerland → United Kingdom → United States → Vatican City →
standardBasedOn	Florentine dialect → Tuscan dialect →
subfamily	Italic languages →
usedAs	lingua franca in parts of the Mediterranean →
usedIn	art history terminology → classical music terminology → culinary terminology → opera →
writingDirection	left-to-right →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (59)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alghero ("Italian") → Apulia ("Italian") → European Economic Community ("Italian") → Guastalla ("Italian") → Italian East Africa ("Italian") → Latina ("Italian") → Molise ("Italian") → Pitigliano ("Italian") → San Marino ("Italian") → Sardinia ("Italian") → Sicily ("Italian") → Tarquinia ("Italian") → Vatican City ("Italian") →	officialLanguage
Alexis → Maximilian → Priscilla → Sylvia → Thomas ("Italian") →	hasLanguageOfUse
Istro-Romanian ("Italian") → Lombard ("Standard Italian") → Nissart ("Italian") → Piedmontese ("Italian") →	hasLexicalInfluenceFrom
Cypriot Greek → Egyptian Arabic → Judeo-Italian ("Italian") → Trentino dialect ("Standard Italian") →	influencedBy
Corsican language → Dalmatian language → Romanian language →	closelyRelatedTo
Brazilian Portuguese → Niçard Occitan →	hasInfluenceFrom
Amharic ("Italian") → Romanian language →	hasLoanwordsFrom
Judeo-Roman →	basedOn
Trentino dialect ("Standard Italian") →	contrastWith
Lombard ("Standard Italian") →	distinctFrom
Emilian-Romagnol →	hasDistinctFrom
Istria ("Italian") →	hasLanguage
Triestine Venetian dialect →	hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom
Albanian language ("Italian") →	hasLoanwordSource
Europe ("Italian") →	hasMajorLanguage
Istria →	hasMinorityLanguage
Giuseppe Peano ("Italian") →	hasNationality
Friuli Venezia Giulia ("Italian") →	hasOfficialLanguage
Guido →	hasOriginInLanguage
Ecclesiastical Latin ("Italian") →	hasPronunciationInfluencedBy
Brooklyn ("Italian") →	hasSignificantLanguages
Brida ("Italian") →	hasTranslation
Vincent →	hasUsage
Indo-European language family →	includesLanguage
Triestine Venetian dialect ("Standard Italian") →	isDistinctFrom
Tuscans →	language
Sandro Pertini ("Italian") →	languageSpoken
Giuseppe Mercalli ("Italian") →	languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned
Corsican language →	lexicallyInfluencedBy
In Other Words →	mainSubject
Vivaro-Alpine ("Italian") →	neighboringLanguage
Occitan →	sharesFeatureWith
Sardinians →	speakAlso