Language code: it
Technical information about ISO 639 language code it
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The table below provides technical details for the Italian language, designated by the it code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Italian Native Italiano |
| Family | Romance |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Northern ItalianCentral Italian (Tuscan–Roman)Southern Italian |
| Related languages | SpanishFrenchCatalanOccitanPortuguese |
| Key facts | Modern Standard Italian is rooted in the Tuscan of Dante and other 14th-century writersIt uniquely preserves a strong contrast between single and double (geminate) consonants among major Romance languagesMany international music, culinary and fashion terms originate from ItalianThe language keeps a seven-vowel system that closely mirrors Classical LatinThe earliest known Italian vernacular texts, the Placiti Cassinesi, were written in 960 CE |
| Sample phrase | Ciao, come stai? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
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Italian belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Romance subgroup. It is the official language of Italy, San Marino, and Vatican City, and is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, specifically serving as an official language in the canton of Ticino and parts of the canton of Graubünden. Italian is written using the Latin script (Italian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 65 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Italian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
it-CH – Italian (Switzerland)
it-IT – Italian (Italy)
it-SM – Italian (San Marino)
it-VA – Italian (Vatican)
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- What is Localizely?
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- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
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- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ