Interesting Facts About ITALIAN

1. Italian didn’t become a single, official language until 1861.
Though various dialects of Italian have been around for centuries, it wasn’t until Italy unified that a standard version of the language emerged. In 1861, only about 2.5% of Italy’s population could speak what is now known as standard Italian.

2. The alphabet contains only 21 letters.
Like other Romance languages (and English), Italian uses Roman characters. However, it contains five fewer letters than English: it lacks the letters j, k, w, x, and y. If you see these letters in an Italian text, it means the word has been borrowed from another language.

3. The word “volt” comes from an Italian inventor.
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, but his invention would be useless if it weren’t for Alessandro Volta, who discovered electricity. “Volt”, the standard measuring unit of electricity (in both English and Italian), comes from his name.

4. The earliest Italian-language text is over 1000 years old.
The Placiti Cassinesi are four juridical documents written sometime between the years 960 and 963, and are considered to be the first written documents in the Italian language. They deal with a land dispute between three Benedictine monasteries and a local landowner.

5. Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world after English, Spanish and Chinese!
6. Italian is the language of music
If you play an instrument or are familiar with music, you are likely to have heard of terms like tempo, crescendo, adagio or sonata. All these words belong to the semantic field of music and they all have Italian origin. Therefore, Italian is known as the language of music because of its use in musical terminology and in the opera.

7. Italian has some very close relatives.
Very big part of Its vocabulary is shared with French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

8. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City and western Istria (in Slovenia and Croatia).
It used to have official status in Albania, Malta and Monaco, where it is still widely spoken. Italian is spoken by small minorities in places such as France (especially in Corsica), Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Crimea and Tunisia and by large expatriate communities in the Americas. The Italian language has been a widely spoken language in the United States of America for more than one hundred years, due to large-scale immigration beginning in the late 19th century. In 1980, it counted more than 1.5 million speakers!

9. According to the "Garzanti" dictionary
The longest word in the Italian language is 'precipitevolissimevolmente' meaning 'very quickly', but at 26 letters, it is surpassed by some medical terms such as 29-letter 'esofagodermatodigiunoplastica' which refers to a kind of plastic surgery.

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