Compare:
| Italian | Japanese | Russian | ||
| Language Family and Writing System | ||||
| Writing System | Latin | Japanese (four Scripts) | Cyrillic | |
| Script(s) Used | Italiano | (nihongo) | (russkij Jazyk) | |
| Family | Indo-european | Japonic | Indo-european | |
| Subgroup | Italic | Japanese | Balto-slavic | |
| 3 Letter Code | Ita | Jpn | Rus | |
| Number of Speakers | ||||
| Number of Native speakers (millions) | 59 million |
125 million |
170 million |
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| Native Speakers as % of World | 1.3 % |
2.7 % |
4 % |
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| Total Number of Speakers (millions) | 62 million |
130 million |
250 million |
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| Total Speakers as % of World | 0.8 % |
1.7 % |
3.3 % |
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| Language Systems | ||||
| Noun declensions | None | None | Six Cases | |
| Sequence | Svo | Sov | Svo | |
| Tonal | No | No | No | |
| Agglutinative language | No | Yes | No | |
| Geographic Distribution | ||||
| Official language in |
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| Official Language of United Nations | No | No | Yes | |
| Countries Spoken In | Italy, Vatican City, San Marino, Switzerland, Malta, Croatia, Slovenia, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Monaco, France | Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Palau | Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Norway, United States, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Mongolia | |
| No. of Countries Spoken In | 12 |
4 |
22 |
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