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Technical information about ISO 639 language code it
The table below provides technical details for the Italian language, designated by the it
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Italian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
it-CH
– Italian (Switzerland)
it-IT
– Italian (Italy)
it-SM
– Italian (San Marino)
it-VA
– Italian (Vatican)
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