ISO 639-3 · vecvec
Indo-European family
Venetian
Łéngua vèneta
Venetian is a language of the Italo-Western branch (Indo-European), spoken in Italy, Croatia, Slovenia and Brazil and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts about 2 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Romance language spoken in the Italian region of Veneto”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
vec- Glottocode
vene1258- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 45.50, 12.30
- Wikipedia
- 91 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Venetian · Łéngua vèneta |
|---|---|
| Also called | Venetan language, Venetian language, Venetan, Wider Venetian, Wider Venetian language |
| All speakers | 2,000,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Venetian
The branches above Venetian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Italy
fraFrenchIndo-European · 285.4 m0 · InternationaldeuGermanIndo-European · 135 m1 · NationalitaItalianIndo-European · 67.8 m1 · NationalsylSylhetiIndo-European · 14 m3 · Wider CommunicationgswAlemannicIndo-European · 10 m5 · DevelopingcatCatalanIndo-European · 10 m2 · ProvincialnapNeapolitanIndo-European · 7.5 m5 · DevelopinghrvCroatianIndo-European · 7 m1 · NationalscnSicilianIndo-European · 4.7 m5 · DevelopinglmoLombardIndo-European · 3.9 m6a · Vigorous