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Italian is derived diachronically from Latin and is spoken by approximately 70,000,000 people around the world.
An interesting fact about the Italian language is that it is the closest language to Latin in terms of its vocabulary and lexical similarity. Moreover, Italian also bears lexical similarities (above 80%) with French, Sardinian, Catalan, and Spanish.
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The number of words contained in the Italian language is similar to that of the French language by consisting of 140,000 (Zanichelli dictionnary) to 275,000 (DeMauro dictionnary) words. If we assume a median between both numbers, we can estimate that the Italian language contains approximately 207,500 words.
Approximately 70,000,000 Native Speakers
The modern Italian alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet consisting of 21 letters. The letters j, k, w, x, y are traditionally excluded but can appear in loanwords such as "jeans" or "taxi" and can be found as accepted in common loanwords such as "extra".
| Uppercase or Capital letter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | Z | ||||||
| Lowercase or small letter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | z | ||||||
Italian includes 3 diacritics appearing only on vowels (circumflex, acute and grave accents).
back to topAs mentioned in the section "Italian Alphabet", Italian uses diacritics (otherwise accented characters). Below you will find a reference table for your convenience.
| Character | ALT Codes (Windows Decimal) | HTML Code |
| À à |
Uppercase: ALT+0192 lowercase: ALT+0224 |
À à |
| É é |
Uppercase: ALT+0201 lowercase: ALT+0233 |
É é |
| È è |
Uppercase: ALT+0200 lowercase: ALT+0232 |
È è |
| Ì ì |
Uppercase: ALT+0204 lowercase: ALT+0236 |
Ì ì |
| Í í |
Uppercase: ALT+0205 lowercase: ALT+0237 |
Í í |
| Î î |
Uppercase: ALT+0206 lowercase: ALT+0238 |
Î î |
| Ó ó |
Uppercase: ALT+0211 lowercase: ALT+0243 |
Ó ó |
| Ò ò |
Uppercase: ALT+0210 lowercase: ALT+0242 |
Ò ò |
| Ú ú |
Uppercase: ALT+0218 lowercase: ALT+0250 |
Ú ú |
| Ù ù |
Uppercase: ALT+0217 lowercase: ALT+0249 |
Ù ù |
ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1") are the most common and usable for most Western European languages, including Italian.
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