Venetian
Romance language spoken in the Italian region of Veneto
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Summary
Venetian is a natural language[1]. Venetian draws 6,101 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #75 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Influenced by: Ancient Greek[3], Vulgar Latin[4], Germanic languages[5], Venetic[6]
- Country: Italy[7], Croatia[8], Slovenia[9], Brazil[10], Mexico[11], Argentina[12], Montenegro[13], Romania[14]
- Instance of: modern language[15]
- Named after: Venice[16], Republic of Venice[17]
- Subclass of: Italo-Western[18], Venetic[19]
- Writing system: Latin script[20]
- Commons category: Venetian language[21]
- Wikimedia language code: vec[22]
- Has part(s): Central Venetian dialect[23], Triestine[24], Trevisan[25], Dialetto veneto occidentale[26], talian[27], Chipilo Venetian dialect[28], Q13212177[29], Istrian dialect[30], Venice city dialect[31], Pontine Venetian[32], Trentine dialect[33]
- Topic's main category: Category:Venetian language[34]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2,000,000[35]
- Topic has template: Q17490400[36]
- Native label: Łéngua vèneta[37], Vèneto[38]
- Different from: Venetic[39], Venice city dialect[40]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[41]
- Indigenous to: Veneto[42], Province of Gorizia[43], Province of Pordenone[44], Trentino[45], Province of Trieste[46], Rio Grande do Sul[47], Santa Catarina[48], São Paulo[49], Pontine Marshes[50]
- Has phoneme: voiced bilabial nasal[51], voiceless bilabial plosive[52], voiced bilabial plosive[53], voiceless labiodental fricative[54], voiced labiodental fricative[55], voiced labio-velar approximant[56], voiceless alveolar stop[57], voiced alveolar stop[58], voiceless dental fricative[59], voiced dental fricative[60], voiced alveolar nasal[61], voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate[62], voiced alveolar affricate[63], voiceless alveolar fricative[64]
Why It Matters
Venetian has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] Venetian is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]