Indo-European · ISO 639-3 pms
Piemontese Language Piemontèis
Piemontese is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Piemontese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Piemontese
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
- Piemontese-Lombard
- Piemontese
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Piemontese language
Piemontese (Piemontèis) is spoken by about 2.0 million people, which makes it the 309th most spoken language in the world — just behind Occitan (post 1500) (2.0 million) and ahead of Powari (2.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Piemontese-Lombard group within the Italic branch.
Where is Piemontese spoken?
Piemontese is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Italy (670,613).
Piemontese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Piemontese is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Lombard, Emilian, Romagnol, French, Haitian, Morisyen and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 pms.
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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.