Italian language

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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.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Italian 84
Italian language canonical 67
Standard Italian 30

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (70)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
national language
standardized language
ancestor Vulgar Latin
branch Romance languages
closelyRelatedTo French
surface form: French language

Portuguese language
Romanian language
Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
coOfficialLanguageIn Switzerland
developedFrom Tuscan literary tradition
family Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
hasDialects Emilian-Romagnol
Friulian
Ligurian
Lombardy
surface form: Lombard

Naples
surface form: 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 of America
surface form: 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

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Referenced by (181)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Emiliano-Romagnol language usedAlongside Italian language
Montella, Italy hasOfficialLanguage Italian language
subject surface form: Montella
this entity surface form: Italian
Griante hasOfficialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Romanesco dialect partOf Italian language
Romanesco dialect distinctFrom Italian language
this entity surface form: Standard Italian
Chieti officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Rucellai family nativeLanguage Italian language
Guglielmino hasOriginLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Italian diaspora hasLanguage Italian language
Little Italy, Toronto languageSpoken Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Tullio associatedLanguage Italian language
Maltese people languageInfluencedBy Italian language
Urban Maltese varieties influencedBy Italian language
Casnedo hasOfficialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Pula minorityLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Salentino dialect partOf Italian language
Salentino dialect differsFrom Italian language
this entity surface form: Standard Italian
Griko hasInfluenceFrom Italian language
Griko hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Savoyard Arpitan distinctFrom Italian language
Galeatesi usedIn Italian language
Cantù officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Genoese Italian influencedBy Italian language
this entity surface form: Standard Italian
Petralia Sottana hasOfficialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Francis Arinze languageSpoken Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Vobarno officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Balilla hasLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Merano officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Swiss Italians nativeLanguage Italian language
Donna usedInLanguage Italian language
Gloria hasLanguageOfUse Italian language
Zibaldone di pensieri hasCommentaryOn Italian language
Hardouin di Gallese hasLanguage Italian language
Francis hasLanguageUsage Italian language
Ursula hasLanguageOfUse Italian language
Genoese dialect hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Italian language
this entity surface form: Standard Italian
Bonifacino dialect hasInfluenceFrom Italian language
Líguru influencedBy Italian language
Giorgio Montini nativeLanguage Italian language
River Plate Spanish influencedBy Italian language
Vivaro-Alpine Occitan hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Vivaro-Alpine Occitan hasDominantContactLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Legnago officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Livornese dialectOf Italian language
Leghorn hasLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Terracina languageUsed Italian language
Ferentino officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Roccagorga hasOfficialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Concerviano officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian
Collegiove officialLanguage Italian language
this entity surface form: Italian