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Venetic is in brown. Venetic ( / vəˈnɛtɪk /) is an extinct Indo-European language, usually classified into the Italic subgroup, that was spoken by the Veneti people in ancient times in northeast Italy ( Veneto and Friuli) and part of modern Slovenia, between the Po Delta and the southern fringe of the Alps, associated with the Este culture.
Venetic language, a language spoken in northeastern Italy before the Christian era. Known to modern scholars from some 200 short inscriptions dating from the 5th through the 1st century bc, it is written either in Latin characters or in a native alphabet derived from Etruscan, the Etruscans having
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Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. Venetian is number 15. Venetian, [7] [8] wider Venetian or Venetan [9] [10] ( łengua vèneta [ˈeŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto [ˈvɛneto]) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, [11] mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
The language represented by inscriptions from the territory of the Veneti —between the Po River, the Carnic Alps, and Istria —is called Venetic. The majority of discoveries come from sanctuaries at Este and Làgole di Calalzo. The Venetic inscriptions (of which there are about 300, ranging from the 5th to the 1st century bce) consist almost ...
The Venetic language found in the inscriptions was originally thought to have been a version of Etruscan. Then because Greek historian Herotodus had mentioned “Ilyrian Eneti” (Ilyria was the ancient region east of the Adriatic and north of Greece), the next belief was that the Veneic language had been Ilyrian.
A word needs to be said about two matches between Venetic (considered here as an Italic language) and Germanic. The Venetic accusative of ego ‘I’ is mego, and this has been compared to the Germanic accusative reflected by Goth. mik. Given the different extensions of the accusative stem of the 1sg.personal pronoun seen in Latin (OLat.
Venetic is an extinct Indo-European language, usually classified into the Italic subgroup, that was spoken by the Veneti people in ancient times in northeast Italy and part of modern Slovenia, between the Po Delta and the southern fringe of the Alps, associated with the Este culture.
