Italian
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Italian is a country.[1]
Key Facts
- Country: Croatia[3], Italy[4], San Marino[5], Slovenia[6], Switzerland[7], Vatican City[8], Greece[9], Albania[10], Ethiopia[11], Libya[12], Eritrea[13], Somalia[14]
- Instance of: modern language[15]
- Subclass of: Italo-Romance[16], Southern European language[17]
- Writing system: Italian alphabet[18], Italian Braille[19]
- Commons category: Italian language[20]
- Wikimedia language code: it[21]
- Edition or translation of: The Persians[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Italian language[23]
- Language regulatory body: Accademia della Crusca[24]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 64,800,000[25], 64,819,790[26], 3,026,000[27]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Italian[28]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[30], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[31]
- Topic has template: Q14468092[32]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/italian[33]
- Native label: italiano[34]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C123788[35]
- Short name: итальянский[36], італійська[37], italyanca[38], итолиёӣ[39], италиаг[40], италиански[41], italijanščina[42], ital[43]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[44]
- History of topic: history of Italian language[45]
- Indigenous to: Canton of the Grisons[46], Canton of Ticino[47]
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Influence
Things named for Italian include Donna[48], a lunar crater[49].
Why It Matters
Italian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Italian is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]
Italian has been cited as an influence by English[52], a natural language[53], in American Samoa[54].
Entities named for Italian include Donna[48], a lunar crater[49].
FAQs
Who did Italian influence?
Italian has been cited as an influence by English[52].