Venetian language

Venetian
Venetian
Łengoa/ƚengua vèneta, vèneto
Native to	Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro
Region	Veneto; Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Trentino; Istria County; Coastal–Karst;
Native speakers	3.9 million (2002)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance (unclassified) Venetian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Fiuman; Talian; Triestine; Chiplo;
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Italy → Veneto; ; Brazil (Talian dialect) → Rio Grande do Sul; → Santa Catarina; → São Paulo; → Minas Gerais; → Espírito Santo; ; Mexico (Chipilo) → Querétaro; → Veracruz; → Puebla; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vec
Glottolog	vene1258
Linguasphere	51-AAA-n
	Venetian language distribution in Triveneto: Areas where Venetian is spoken Areas where Venetian is spoken alongside other languages (Bavarian, Emilian, Friulian, Slovene, Chakavian, Istriot and formerly Dalmatian) and areas of linguistic transition (with Lombard and with Emilian) Areas of influence of Venetian (over Lombard and over Ladin)

Venetian, wider Venetian or Venetan (łengua vèneta [ˈeŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto [ˈvɛneto]) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. 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 Bay of Kotor (Montenegro) by a surviving autochthonous Venetian population, and in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom by Venetians in the diaspora.

Although referred to as an "Italian dialect" (Venetian: diałeto, Italian: dialetto) even by some of its speakers, the label is primarily geographic. Venetian is a separate language from Italian, with many local varieties. Its precise place within the Romance language family remains somewhat controversial. Both Ethnologue and Glottolog group it into the Gallo-Italic branch. Devoto, Avolio and Ursini reject such classification, and Tagliavini places it in the Italo-Dalmatian branch of Romance.

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