Venetian | |
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łengoa/łengua vèneta, vèneto | |
Native to | Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro |
Region | |
Native speakers | 3.9 million (2002)[5] |
Indo-European
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Dialects | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Montenegro (co-official) |
Recognised minority language in | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | vec |
Glottolog | vene1258 |
Linguasphere | 51-AAA-n |
![]() Venetian language distribution in Triveneto:
Areas where Venetian is spoken
Areas where Venetian is spoken alongside other languages (Bavarian, Emilian, Friulian, Slovene, Chakavian, Istriot and formerly Dalmatian) and areas of linguistic transition (with Lombard and with Emilian)
Areas of influence of Venetian (over Lombard and over Ladin) | |
Venetian,[7][8] wider Venetian or Venetan[9][10] (łengua vèneta [ˈ(l)eŋɡwa 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. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto: in Trentino, Friuli, the Julian March, Istria, and some towns of Slovenia, Dalmatia (Croatia) and Bay of Kotor (Montenegro)[12][13] by a surviving autochthonous Venetian population, and in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom by Venetians in the diaspora.
Although referred to as an "Italian dialect" (Venetian: diałeto; Italian: dialetto) even by some of its speakers, the label is primarily geographic. Venetian is a separate language from Italian, with many local varieties. Its precise place within the Romance language family remains somewhat controversial. Both Ethnologue and Glottolog group it into the Gallo-Italic branch (and thus, closer to French and Emilian–Romagnol than to Italian).[8][7] Devoto, Avolio and Ursini reject such classification,[14][15][16] and Tagliavini places it in the Italo-Dalmatian branch of Romance.[17]
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