Indo-European · ISO 639-3 vec
Venetian Language vèneto
Venetian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.0 million people in 5 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Venetian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Venetian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Dalmatian Romance
- Venetian
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Venetian language
Venetian (vèneto) is spoken by about 2.0 million people, which makes it the 316th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tulu (2.0 million) and ahead of Wagdi (2.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Dalmatian Romance group within the Italic branch.
Where is Venetian spoken?
Venetian is used in 5 countries. The largest communities live in Italy (792,543), Brazil (528,124), Slovenia (29,370), Croatia (29,050) and Mexico (2,484).
Share of the population that speaks Venetian: Italy 1.3% (792,543), Brazil 0.2% (528,124), Slovenia 1.4% (29,370), Croatia 0.7% (29,050) and Mexico <0.1% (2,484).
Venetian is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Italy, Brazil, Slovenia and Croatia.
Writing system and status
Venetian is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Italian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 vec.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.