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Venetian, wider Venetian or Venetan (łengua vèneta [ˈeŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
- 3.9 million (2002)
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. [3] [1] [4]
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Venetian literature is the corpus of literature in Venetian, the vernacular language of the region roughly corresponding to Venice, from the 12th century.
However literary Venetian lost out to the Tuscan dialect, which eventually became the national language of Italy. Today Venetian has no official status in Italy but is recognised by the Regional Council of Vèneto. It is used mainly in informal contexts. In parts of Brazil the Talian dialect of Venetian holds co-official status with Portuguese.
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 established settlements in the Po Valley in the ...
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The origin and evolution of the Venetian dialect. 23 August 2021. Venice, 24th June 2021 – It is a dialect, although for centuries it has been defined as a language, able to influence the modern Italian language with several words which are still used today.
Apr 2, 2023 · The Venetian people had their own language for the well over a thousand years the Republic of Venice existed. The tree of Indo-European languages, with the. Venetian language in the upper right. The Venetian language is a Romance language but it is closer to French than to modern Italian. Venetian, like most other italic languages, descends ...
