Italian

Italian

Italiano
65M speakers · Indo-European Romance · Latin
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ItalySwitzerlandSan MarinoVatican CityArgentinaAustraliaFranceAustriaCroatiaSlovenia

Written in the latin script. Uses SVO word order with fusional morphology. Notable features include 2 grammatical genders, a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.

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Official in 4 countries

ItalySwitzerlandSan MarinoVatican City

313,556 km²

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Typology

Word order SVO
Adjective both
Numeral before noun
Adposition preposition
Def. article yes
Indef. article yes
Pro-drop yes
Tonal no
Gender yes
Noun cases no

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