Venetian, also called Venetan, is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in the Veneto region, where most of the roughly five million inhabitants can understand it. Within this atlas it is treated as a regional dialect and variety of Italian, though it is often classified by linguists as a separate Romance language rather than a dialect of standard Italian.
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Regionis a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. 1 Speaker CommunityIt is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto: in Trentino, Friuli, the Julian March, Istria, and some towns of Slovenia, Dalmatia (Croatia) and the Bay of Kotor (Montenegro) by a surviving indigenous Venetian population, and in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom by Venetians in the diaspora. 1 Distinguishing FeaturesWhile Ethnologue groups it into the Gallo-Italic branch (and thus, closer to French and Emilian-Romagnol than to Italian), Glottolog places it in its Dalmatian Romance branch alongside Dalmatian and Istriot. 1 Classification
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Descends From
Venetian evolved from Vulgar Latin as a sister language of Italian, not as a dialect of Italian.
Source Wikipedia: Venetian Language
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1. Wikipedia: Venetian Language
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is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
Lead section, diaspora sentence
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 the Bay of Kotor (Montenegro) by a surviving indigenous Venetian population, and in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom by Venetians in the diaspora.
Lead section, classification-dispute sentence
While Ethnologue groups it into the Gallo-Italic branch (and thus, closer to French and Emilian-Romagnol than to Italian), Glottolog places it in its Dalmatian Romance branch alongside Dalmatian and Istriot.
Variety kind, Venetian entity page
Within this atlas it is treated as a regional dialect and variety of Italian, though it is often classified by linguists as a separate Romance language rather than a dialect of standard Italian.
Descends From: Latin, History section
Like all members of the Romance language family, Venetian evolved from Vulgar Latin, and is thus a sister language of Italian and other Romance languages.
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