Venetic language

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The Venetic language was an extinct Indo-European tongue once spoken by the ancient Veneti people in northeastern Italy and nearby regions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
extinct language
attestedFromCentury 6th century BCE
attestedIn inscriptions
attestedUntilCentury 1st century BCE
closelyRelatedTo Italic languages (disputed)
deciphermentStatus partially understood
extinct yes
glottologCode vene1238
hasFeature Indo-European verbal morphology
SOV word order (reconstructed)
case inflection
grammatical gender
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Latin
Oscan language
surface form: Oscan

Umbrian
hasMorphologicalFeature use of -i and -e endings in noun inflection
hasNotableInscriptionSite Este
Lamon
Montegrotto Terme
Padua
Vicenza
hasPhonologicalFeature distinction between voiced and voiceless stops (reconstructed)
hasSubstrateOrContactWith Celtic languages
Etruscan language
Germanic languages
iso639-3 xve
languageFamily Indo-European languages
notSameAs Venetic language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Venetic (Adriatic Venetic) of the eastern Adriatic
region Northern Italy
surface form: Cisalpine region

Tyrolean Alps
surface form: Eastern Alps
replacedBy Latin
scriptDerivedFrom Etruscan alphabet
spokenBy Veneti people
spokenIn Adriatic Sea
surface form: Adriatic coast

Este
Padua
Veneto
northeastern Italy
timeDepthOfCorpus limited
usedFor funerary inscriptions
ownership inscriptions
votive inscriptions
writingDirection boustrophedon (in some inscriptions)
right-to-left
writingSystem Old Italic script
Venetic alphabet

Referenced by (9)

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Lamon hasLanguageOfInscriptions Venetic language
Italic languages hasSubgroup Venetic language
Veneti language Venetic language
Venetic alphabet languageWritten Venetic language
Venetic language notSameAs Venetic language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Venetic (Adriatic Venetic) of the eastern Adriatic
Veneti people spokeLanguage Venetic language
North Italic alphabet usedFor Venetic language
Old Italic script usedForLanguage Venetic language
Este usedLanguageHistorically Venetic language