- ISO 639
it- Its own name
- italiano
- Script
- Latin
- Direction
- Left to right
Italian
Italian (italiano) is spoken by 70.5M people across 15 territories in CLDR, and is official nationally in 4 of them. Italy holds 82% of its speakers.
Reach summary
What one translation into Italian covers, across every market that speaks it.
Speakers
70.5M
Italy 82% · Germany 8% · Switzerland 2%
First and second language speakers, summed across the 15 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.
Online speakers
63.4M
0%100%
90% of speakers, once each territory's speaker count is scaled by its World Bank internet rate. Territories with no internet figure contribute nothing, so this is a floor.
Concentration
82%
0%100%
One market with a diaspora: Italy holds 82% of speakers. Take the tone and conventions from there.
Territories
15
4 where it is official nationally, 4 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.
Reachable GDP
$49.9T
Combined GDP of every territory where the language appears. It counts whole economies, not the speakers' share, so read it as an upper bound.
Translation rate
1.00×
1.0×1.6×+
Prices at the mainstream per-word rate used across this site's estimators.
Where Italian is spoken
Every territory CLDR records, largest speaker count first. Share is of that territory's own population, so the column has no total.
| Territory | Share of that market | Speakers | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ItalyIT | 95% | 57.9M | 51.7M | official |
| GermanyDE | 7% | 5.9M | 5.5M | minority or diaspora |
| SwitzerlandCH | 15% | 1.3M | 1.3M | official |
| United StatesUS | 0.4% | 1.2M | 1.1M | minority or diaspora |
| FranceFR | 1.7% | 1.2M | 1M | minority or diaspora |
| AustriaAT | 9% | 807.1K | 741.9K | minority or diaspora |
| BrazilBR | 0.3% | 616.1K | 520.4K | minority or diaspora |
| CanadaCA | 1.5% | 581.9K | 549.1K | minority or diaspora |
| AustraliaAU | 1.9% | 508.6K | 488.9K | minority or diaspora |
| MaltaMT | 56% | 263K | 246.9K | major |
| United KingdomGB | 0.2% | 136.9K | 130.7K | minority or diaspora |
| CroatiaHR | 1.6% | 66.4K | 55.5K | minority or diaspora |
| San MarinoSM | 89% | 31.2K | 30.4K | official |
| SloveniaSI | 0.2% | 4K | 3.6K | minority or diaspora |
| Vatican CityVA | 82% | 820 | — | official |
CLDR does record diaspora populations, so a language usually appears in more territories than its home markets, at small shares. Those rows rarely justify a launch on their own, but they are why total reach runs higher than any one country page shows. A dash in the online column means no World Bank internet figure, not zero.
What it takes to ship
The work that is not translation.
Writing system
Latin
Lays out left to right, the same as the source. Platform default fonts cover this script.
Plural categories
3
Every counted message needs up to 3 arms, and the translator needs all of them.
Rate index
1.00×
Prices at the mainstream per-word rate.