The majority of speakers of the Venetian is located in the regions current Italian from Veneto , Friuli-Venezia Giulia , Trentino-Alto Adige , but there are a small minority of speakers of that language in two neighboring countries: Slovenia and Croatia ( concentrates, the latter in the peninsula of Istria , with some homes on the coast Dalmatian ).

Moreover, the Italian emigration in the ^nineteenth and ^twentieth centuries has led to the formation of small "islands" of users of the Venetian in America , particularly in the city of Chipilo ( Puebla , Mexico ) and in the Brazilian states of So Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul , especially in wine regions, which has developed a dialect called talus (in) , composed of much of Venetian and to a lesser extent of Italian with lexical borrowing outside.

In Veneto is sometimes a bilingual road signs in two forms (Venetian / Italian).

Variants of the local language modern Venetian

Besides the external forms practiced in Mexico and Brazil, the general designation "Venetian" includes several variants, as practiced in the north-eastern Italy.

The Venetian distinguishes the following varieties:

• in the region of Veneto :
  • the dialect spoken in the province of Belluno (diaeto beunexe or belumat)
  • Paduan dialect, spoken in the province of Padua (diaeto Padovan or Padoan, Paduan)
  • the dialect spoken in the province of Rovigo (diaeto rodigin or rovigoto)
  • Treviso dialect, spoken in the province of Treviso (Trevisan diaeto or Trevigiana)
  • Venetian dialect, spoken in the province of Venice (or diaeto venesian venezsian)
  • Veronese dialect, spoken in the province of Verona (diaeto veronexe)
  • Vicenza dialect, spoken in the province of Vicenza (Vicenza diaeto or vixentin)
• in the region Friuli Venezia Giulia :
  • Istrian dialect-Julian (Julian where diaeto istriota-Veneto of the Istria, Fiume e venesia of Julia), also spoken in the former regions of vntophones western Slovenia (pieces of Istria) and Croatia (Istria and Dalmatia)
  • Trieste dialect, spoken in the province of Trieste (Trieste diaeto)
• in the region of Lombardy :
  • orobie dialect, spoken in eastern Lombardy (diaeto Orobico or Veneto of the Eastern onbardia)
• in the region Trentino-Alto Adige :
  • Trentino dialect, spoken in the Autonomous Province of Trento (Trento diaeto).

The Italian uses a different classification:

• the "central Venetian, comprising the dialects Vicenza, Padua and Polesano,
• the "Eastern Veneto and sea", covering the Venetian dialect, gradense, Trieste, Istria and fiumano,
• the "Venetian Western", comprising the dialects of Verona, Trento, Brescia and Cremona,
• the "central-northern Veneto, Treviso and grouping the dialects coneglianesi,
• the "northern Veneto, comprising the dialects Bellunese.

He also cites the following external variants:

• the chioggiotto / Ciosoto,
• the Dalmatian Dalmatian
• talian or the Brazilian veneten
• the chipilense (spoken Chipilo , in Mexico )
• the Venetian-Romanian spoken in the region of Tulcea , a former possession of the Venetian Republic on the shores of the Black Sea ,
• the Venetian-Pontine, mixed language use among the founding settlers of various cities created under Mussolini in Lazio , which seems in sharp decline. This variation was influenced by both the variant of Treviso Venetian dialect by the Roman with inputs from other Italian dialects.

Examples of differences between the Venetian and Italian

French in words borrowed from Venetian

Words arsenal , ciao, ghetto , gondola, lagoon and lagoon , lido and Montenegro are exact transpositions, for some, or adaptations of words in the Venetian.

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