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Language code: ita

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ita

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The table below provides technical details for the Italian language, designated by the ita code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ita

Name

Official

Italian

Native

Italiano

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
TuscanCentral ItalianSouthern Italian (Neapolitan–Calabrese)Sicilian
Related languages
CorsicanFrenchSpanishCatalanPortuguese
Key facts
About 80% of its vocabulary descends directly from LatinSpelling is highly phonetic, with an almost one-to-one sound–letter matchThe earliest Italian literary texts date from the 10th–13th centuries, including Dante’s Divine ComedyInternational music terminology (allegro, piano, forte, etc.) is in ItalianWord stress is contrastive and can fall on any of the last three syllables.
Sample phrase

Ciao, come stai?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Italian language, identified by the code ita, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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