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Preferred term

vecVenetian  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Venetian or Venetan is a Romance language spoken as a native language by over two million people, mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, where of five million inhabitants almost all can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto, in Trentino, Friuli, Venezia Giulia, Istria and some towns of Dalmatia, an area of six to seven million people. The language is called vèneto or vènet in Venetian, veneto in Italian; the variant spoken in Venice is called venexiàn/venesiàn or veneziano, respectively. Although referred to as an Italian dialect (diałeto dialetto) even by its speakers, like other Italian dialects it is a sister language of the national language, not a variety or derivative of it. Venetan (and Venetian proper, the language of Venice) display structural and lexical differences from Italian. Typologically, Venetian is clearly distinct from the Romance languages spoken in North Western Italy, the Gallo-Italic languages.

Entry terms

  • Venetian language

ISO 639-3 code

  • vec

In other languages

  • Venesiaans

    Afrikaans

  • ቬኔትኛ

    Amharic

  • لغة بندقية

    Arabic

  • Idioma venecián

    Aragonese

  • Veneziera

    Basque

  • Veneteg

    Breton

  • Vènet

    Catalan

  • 威尼斯語

    Chinese

  • Venecijanski jezik

    Croatian

  • Benátština

    Czech

  • Venetiaans

    Dutch

  • Venecia lingvo

    Esperanto

  • Luenga veneciana

    Extremaduran

  • Finnish

  • Vénitien

    French

  • Lingua véneta

    Galician

  • Venetische Sprache

    German

  • Νέα βενετική γλώσσα

    Greek

  • Vî-nî-sṳ̂-ngî

    Hakka Chinese

  • ונטית

    Hebrew

  • Velencei nyelv

    Hungarian

  • Lingua venetian

    Interlingua

  • Lingua veneta

    Italian

  • ヴェネツィア語

    Japanese

  • 베네토어

    Korean

  • Lingua Veneta

    Latin

  • Lengua veneta

    Ligurian

  • Venetų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Lengoa Veneta

    Lombard

  • Veneeshish

    Manx

  • Veneto-gí

    Min Nan Chinese

  • Venetiansk

    Norwegian

  • Venèt

    Occitan

  • زبان ونتی

    Persian

  • Lenga véneta

    Piedmontese

  • Język wenecki

    Polish

  • Língua vêneta

    Portuguese

  • Limba venetă

    Romanian

  • Современный венетский язык

    Russian

  • Venetian leid

    Scots

  • Venecijanski jezik

    Serbo-Croatian

  • Lingua vènita

    Sicilian

  • Beneščina

    Slovenian

  • Idioma véneto

    Spanish

  • Swedish

  • வெநேத மொழி

    Tamil

  • Venedikçe

    Turkish

  • Венеційська мова

    Ukrainian

  • ۋېنىسىيە تىلى

    Uyghur

  • Łéngua vèneta

    Venetian

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/vec

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