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Encyclopedia: Venetian language

Venetian or Venetan is a Romance language spoken by over two million people, mostly in the Veneto region of Italy. The language is called vèneto in Venetian, veneto in Italian; the variant spoken in Venice is called venesiàn/venessiàn or veneziano, respectively. Although commonly referred to as an Italian dialect (diałeto, dialetto), even by its speakers, it displays notable structural differences from Italian proper. Like other varieties spoken in northern Italy, it has certain historical affinities with Spanish, French, and other Romance languages as well as with standard Italian.

On March 28, 2007 the Regional Council of Vèneto officially recognized the existence of the Venetan Language (Łéngua Vèneta) by passing with a vast majority the law on the "tutela e valorizzazione della lingua e della cultura veneta" with the vote of both ruling and opposition parties.

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How to say "Venetian language" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	ヴェネツィア語
	(German)	Venezianische Sprache
	(Spanish)	Idioma veneciano
	(French)	Vénitien
	(Italian)	Lingua veneta

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Ciao

The word ciao comes from the Venetian language's s-ciàvo or s-ciào , Italian schiavo , slave. Originally it was used as a salutation ( greetings , hello , good-bye ) said by a servant to his boss... greeting or good-by among friends and relatives. The word s-ciào is still used in Venetian as an...

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Illyrian languages

in the area, mainly Slavic languages in the rural areas and the Venetian language in the urban areas... Illyrian languages are a group of Indo-European languages that were found in the western part of the Balkans. Around 230 BC the languages were Romanized (sometime completely, as in the case of the...

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