Venetic alphabet

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The Venetic alphabet is an ancient writing system used by the Veneti people of northeastern Italy, derived from and closely related to other Old Italic scripts.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Old Italic script
alphabet
writing system
category ancient script
culturalContext Venetic culture
derivedFrom Old Italic scripts
evidenceForm epigraphic inscriptions
geographicContext pre-Roman Italy
hasCharacterType consonants
vowels
historicalStatus extinct
influencedBy Etruscan script
North Italic scripts
languageWritten Venetic language
region Adriatic coast
Venetia
relatedTo Etruscan alphabet
Latin alphabet
Lepontic alphabet
Raetic alphabet
replacedBy Latin alphabet
scriptFamily Italic scripts
Old Italic
scriptLineage derived from Etruscan-derived Old Italic scripts
scriptType alphabetic
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
Iron Age
unicodeStatus not fully encoded in Unicode
usedBy Veneti people
usedIn Northeastern Italy
usedUntil Romanization of Venetia
writingDirection left-to-right
writingMedium ceramic objects
inscriptions
metal
stone
writingSystemType segmental script


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