Venetic > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Venetic
Type:
Language
Code:
xve
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Veneto-Liburnian (vlie)
Brief Description:
An ancient language of northern Italy. It has one of the largest collections of inscriptions in a language of pre-Roman Italy, though they are usually short and contain very few words. The inscriptions (of which there are over 250) are usually written in a North Etruscan alphabet. The language is probably an independent western Indo-European language, unrelated to either Italic or Celtic. The main centers of the Veneti were at modern Este, Padua and Vicenza. 5th BC - 1st century BC.
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Map of Venetic
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