diff --git a/spacy/it/__init__.py b/spacy/it/__init__.py
index 6a824fe82..b5e5487dd 100644
--- a/spacy/it/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/it/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,25 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
 from os import path
 
 from ..language import Language
+from ..attrs import LANG
+from . import language_data
 
 
-class Italian(Language):
-    pass
+class German(Language):
+    lang = 'it'
+    
+    class Defaults(Language.Defaults):
+        tokenizer_exceptions = dict(language_data.TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS)
+        lex_attr_getters = dict(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters)
+        lex_attr_getters[LANG] = lambda text: 'it'
+        
+        prefixes = tuple(language_data.TOKENIZER_PREFIXES)
+        
+        suffixes = tuple(language_data.TOKENIZER_SUFFIXES)
+        
+        infixes = tuple(language_data.TOKENIZER_INFIXES)
+
+        tag_map = dict(language_data.TAG_MAP)
+
+        stop_words = set(language_data.STOP_WORDS)
+