Indo-European · ISO 639-3 egl
Emilian Language Emiliân-Rumagnōl
Emilian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.3 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Emilian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Emilian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Northwestern Shifted Romance
- Gallo-Italian
- Emiliano-Romagnolo
- Emilian
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Emilian language
Emilian (Emiliân-Rumagnōl) is spoken by about 1.3 million people, which makes it the 407th most spoken language in the world — just behind Bulu (Cameroon) (1.3 million) and ahead of Haya (1.3 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Emiliano-Romagnolo group within the Italic branch.
Where is Emilian spoken?
Emilian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Italy (30,482).
Emilian is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Emilian is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Romagnol, Lombard, Piemontese, French, Haitian, Morisyen and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 egl.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.