Venetan

From Veneto +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnətən/

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Venetan (linguistics)

1. A group of related Romance varieties indigenous to Veneto (region in northeastern Italy).

   Hyponym: Venetian

The usage of the term is to avoid the ambiguity of Venetian, also used to refer to the dialect spoken in the city of Venice itself.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Venetan terms
• ISO 639-3 code vec (SIL)

• Maiden, M., Smith, J. C., Ledgeway, A., editors (2013), The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, Cambridge University Press, →DOI
• Ledgeway, A., Maiden, M., editors (2016), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI
• “venetan” in Britannica