Neapolitan
Italo-Dalmatian language spoken in southern Italy
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Summary
Neapolitan is a natural language[1]. Neapolitan ranks in the top 10% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,384 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Italy[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Italo-Romance[5]
- Writing system: Latin script[6], Latin alphabet[7]
- Commons category: Neapolitan language[8]
- Wikimedia language code: nap[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Neapolitan language[10]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 7,500,000[11]
- Native label: Lengua napulitana[12]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[13]
- Indigenous to: Campania[14], Calabria[15]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/NAP[16], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133116638[17]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[18]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[19], syllabic language[20]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Neapolitan-language films[21]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[22], WikiProject Italy[23], WikiProject Kingdom of Naples[24]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Neapolitan-language music[25]
Why It Matters
Neapolitan has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Neapolitan is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]