Family / Group : Indo-European, Italic, Romance
Area : Europe, Italy, Switzerland, San-Marino; many communities in South America and Africa
Type : fusionnal
Inflectional language : Yes
Language with gender : F, M, NEU
Sources of lexicon : homolexical (Latin inheritance), Classic languages
Language with sortal classifiers : No
Syntactics for numerals : NUM N
Specific traits : SVO, prepositions, modifiers precede or follow head noun
Numeration base : Decimal
Comments : about 60,000,000 (2012). Total users in all countries 90,000,000