Venetian language
Romance language spoken in the Italian region of Veneto
The Venetian language (in Venetian: vèneto) is a Romance language.
Venetian | |
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Vèneto | |
Native to | Italy, Slovenia, Croatia |
Region | |
Native speakers | 3.9 million (2002)[5] |
Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | vec |
Glottolog | vene1258 |
Linguasphere | 51-AAA-n |
It was the language once spoken in the Republic of Venice.
TodayEdit
In the present day, it is spoken in the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in Slovenia and in Croatia. It is also spoken in Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina states) and Mexico (town of Chipilo) by the descendants of Italian immigrants.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 United Nations (1991). Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names: Vol.2. Montreal.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Holmes, Douglas R. (1989). Cultural disenchantments: worker peasantries in northeast Italy. Princeton University Press.
- ↑ Minahan, James (1998). Miniature empires: a historical dictionary of the newly independent states. Westport. ISBN 9780313306105.
- ↑ Kalsbeek, Janneke (1998). The Čakavian dialect of Orbanići near Žminj in Istria: Vol.25. Atlanta.
- ↑ Venetian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Venetian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia