12 Facts About Venetian language

Venetian or Venetan is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in the Veneto region, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.

Venetian language spread to other continents as a result of mass migration from the Veneto region between 1870 and 1905, and between 1945 and 1960.

Venetian language is spoken mainly in the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia and in both Slovenia and Croatia .

In Mexico, the Chipilo Venetian language dialect is spoken in the state of Puebla and the town of Chipilo.

Venetian language has survived in the state of Veracruz, where other Italian migrants have settled since the late 19th century.

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Until the middle of the 20th century, Venetian language was spoken on the Greek Island of Corfu, which had long been under the rule of the Republic of Venice.

Venetian language has the Romance articles, both definite and indefinite .

Piedmontese Venetian language has clitic subject pronouns, but the rules are somewhat different.

For instance, in Venetian language the clitic marks the indicative verb and its masculine singular subject, otherwise there is an imperative preceded by a vocative.

Venetian language has a special interrogative verbal flexion used for direct questions, which incorporates a redundant pronoun:.

Venetian language includes however many words derived from other sources, and has preserved some Latin words not used to the same extent in Italian, resulting in many words that are not cognate with their equivalent words in Italian, such as:.

Differences between earlier and modern pronunciation, divergences in pronunciation within the modern Venetian language-speaking region, differing attitudes about how closely to model spelling on Italian norms, as well as personal preferences, some of which reflect sub-regional identities, have all hindered the adoption of a single unified spelling system.