Venetian Leid

It is sometime spoken an aften well unnerstood ootside Veneto, in Trentino, Friuli, Venezia Giulia, Istria an some touns o Dalmatie, an aurie o sax tae seiven million fowk. The leid is called vèneto or vènet in Venetian, veneto in Italian; the variant spoken in Venice is called venexiàn/venesiàn or veneziano, respectively. Although referred tae as an Italian dialect (diałeto dialetto) even bi its speakers, like ither Italian dialects it is a sister leid o the naitional leid, no a variety or derivative o it. Venetan (an Venetian proper, the language of Venice), display notable structural an lexical differences frae Italian. Typologically, Venetan belangs ae partly tae the Northren Italian group wi'in Romance leids.

Venetian
Ƚéngoa vèneta, vèneto
Native tae	Italy, Slovenie, Croatie
Region	Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trentino Istria Coonty
Native speakers	3.9 million (2002)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Wastren Venetian
Offeecial status
Recognised minority leid in	Italy  Veneto  Brazil (Talian dialect) Template:Kintra data Rio Grande do Sul  Santa Catarina
Leid codes
ISO 639-3	vec
Glottolog	vene1258
Linguasphere	51-AAA-n
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Neither Venetan nor Venetian shoud be ramfeeselt wi Venetic, an extinct Indo-European language that wis spoken in the Veneto region aroond the 6t century BC.