Venetic language
E7613
The Venetic language was an extinct Indo-European tongue once spoken by the ancient Veneti people in northeastern Italy and nearby regions.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Venetic (Adriatic Venetic) of the eastern Adriatic | 1 |
Statements (47)
| 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)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Venetic (Adriatic Venetic) of the eastern Adriatic