Indo-European family
Italian
1300 CE – today Living
Italian (1300 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Vulgar Latin → Old Italian → Italian.
See Italian on the interactive map- Speakers
- 67M (67,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- ita
- Glottocode
- ital1282
The Tuscan dialect of Old Italian, elevated by Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in the 14th century, became the basis of standard Italian after unification in 1861.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
- Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
- Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
- Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
- Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
- Old Italianc. 960 CE – 1300 CE
- Italian1300 CE – today