This article is about the modern Romance language. For the ancient language, see Venetic language.
Venetian
ƚengoa/ƚengua vèneta, vèneto
Native to
Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro
Region
Veneto[1][2]
Friuli-Venezia Giulia[1][2]
Trentino[1][2]
Istria County[3][4]
Coastal–Karst[3][4]
Native speakers
3.9 million (2002)[5]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Latin
Romance
Italo-Western
(unclassified)
Venetian
Dialects
Fiuman
Talian
Triestine
Chiplo
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Italy
→ Veneto
Brazil (Talian dialect)[6]
→ Rio Grande do Sul
→ Santa Catarina
→ São Paulo
→ Minas Gerais
→ Espírito Santo
Mexico (Chipilo)
→ Querétaro
→ Veracruz
→ Puebla
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)
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Venetian,[7][8]wider Venetian or Venetan[9][10] (łengua vèneta[ˈeŋɡwaˈvɛneta] 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.[8][7] Devoto, Avolio and Ursini reject such classification,[14][15][16] and Tagliavini places it in the Italo-Dalmatian branch of Romance.[17]
^ abcFifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names: Vol.2. Montreal: United Nations. 1991.
^ abcHolmes, Douglas R. (1989). Cultural disenchantments: worker peasantries in northeast Italy. Princeton University Press.
^ abMinahan, James (1998). Miniature empires: a historical dictionary of the newly independent states. Westport: Greenwood.
^ abKalsbeek, Janneke (1998). The Čakavian dialect of Orbanići near Žminj in Istria. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics. Vol. 25. Atlanta.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Venetian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Tonial, Honório (26 June 2009). "Subsídios para o reconhecimento do Talian" [Subsidies for the recognition of Talian]. Instituto de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Política Linguística (IPOL) (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
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