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Italian

Italian

Summary

Italian is natively spoken by approximately 56 million people, primarily in Italy, Switzerland, and San Marino, with significant communities in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It is integral to Italian cultural identity, renowned for its art, architecture, cuisine, and opera. Written in the Latin alphabet, Italian grammar features a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, gendered nouns, and a system of verb conjugations that indicate tense, mood, and aspect.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 0

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 21

  • Word Order: SVO

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 7

  • Number of Consonants: 23

Areas Where Spoken

  • Italy (official) (94.1%) (55.5 mil)

  • Monaco (16.1%) (6 k)

  • San Marino (official) (100%) (34 k)

  • Switzerland (official) (8.3%) (728 k)

Resources


Apps

  • Duolingo 

  • Busuu 

  • Clozemaster 

  • Memrise 

  • Lingodeer 

  • Wlingua 

  • LingQ

Books

  • Complete Italian - practice makes perfect

  • New Italian espresso workbook Short stories in Italian for beginners (by Olly Richards)

  • Reading list

  • Reading list 2


Websites


Podcast 


Videos

YouTubers

Intrattenimento


Gaming


News


Science


Arts


Vocabulary

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