Vatican State

Summary

Official Name

Vatican City State

Population

800

Principal Languages

Italian, Latin

Literacy Rate

100% (Roser and Ortiz-Ospina 2018)

General References

Comrie 1987

Language Counts

The number of established languages listed for Vatican State is 2. All are living languages. Of these, 1 is indigenous and 1 is non-indigenous. Furthermore, 1 is institutional and 1 is dying.

Languages

Italian ita: Users: 330 in Vatican State (2013). Status: 1 (National). De facto national language. Alternate Names: Italiano Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian
Latin lat: Users: No known L1 speakers. Ethnic population: No ethnic community. Status: 9 (Second language only). De facto national working language, used for all official Holy See documents. Autonym: Latina Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan