Linguistics

Venetian Language

Venetian (Venezian) is one of 33 languages spoken in Italy. It is very different from Standard Italian.

Alternate name: VENETO, VENET
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Italian.
Comments: Distinct from Standard Italian, it is vigorously spoken in Italy, Croatia and Slovenia and is not endangered. Speakers also use Italian. Bible portions 1859.

The Venetian language has 2,180,387 speakers in Italy (2000 WCD) and 100,000 speakers in Croatia (Istria and Dalmatia) and Slovenia (1994 Tapani Salminen).

Spoken Dialects

Country

Region

Dialects

ITALY

Northern Italy, city of Venice, area of the Tre Venezie;
Venezia Eugànea westward to Verona, southward to the Po, and eastward to the border of the Fruili;
Venezia Tridentina, in the Adige valley and neighboring mountain regions to the north of Trent;
and Venezia Giulia, east of the Friuli, and including Trieste.

Bisiacco is spoken in Gorizia Province.

BISIACCO

ISTRIAN[O]

TRIESTINO

VENETIAN PROPER

CROATIA and SLOVENIA
(combined)

Istrian peninsula and Dalmatia.

Linguistic Tree

Indo-European (443)

Source:

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEC and http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=VEC

Pages of interest:

Bisiac people

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