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Also known as Venetic language

language

Key facts

Native to
Italy
Region
Veneto
Ethnicity
Adriatic Veneti
Era
attested 6th–1st century BCE
Language family
Indo-European Italic (?) or, para- Celtic (?) Venetic
Writing system
Old Italic ( Venetic alphabet )
Iso 639 3
xve
Glottolog
vene1257

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
ancient language
Subclass of
Italic
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number of speakers, writers, or signers
0
different from
Venetian
Commons category
Venetic language
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
0001-00-00
writing system
Latin script
topic's main category
Category:Venetic language
indigenous to
Adriatic Veneti
has grammatical gender
neuter
has grammatical case
ablative case
has grammatical mood
subjunctive
has tense
past tense
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Encyclopedic overview

Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. Venetic is in brown.

Venetic (/vɪˈnɛtɪk/ vin-ET-ik) is an extinct Indo-European language, most commonly classified into the Italic subgroup, that was spoken by the Veneti people in ancient times in northeast Italy (Veneto and Friuli) and part of modern Slovenia, between the Po Delta and the southern fringe of the Alps, associated with the Este culture.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venetic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.