Venetkens
Venetic
Indo-European (Italic, or an independent IE branch — debated) · historical / hidden variety
Venetic is an Indo-European language attested in roughly 300 inscriptions from the eastern Po Plain (Este, Padua, Lagole, Vicenza) dating ~6th–1st c. BCE. Its precise affiliation is debated — many treat it as a separate IE branch, others as Italic or specifically a near-relative of Latin. It used a distinctive North-Etruscan-derived alphabet with the unusual feature of syllabic punctuation, in which non-initial vowels and consonant clusters are marked with surrounding dots.
Where it is spoken
87 core words in Venetic
Sources
- Lejeune, M. (1974) Manuel de la langue vénète. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Pellegrini, G. B. & Prosdocimi, A. L. (1967) La lingua venetica, 2 vols. Padua/Florence: Istituto di Glottologia.
- Marinetti, A. (1999) Venetico 1976–1996. Acquisizioni e prospettive. In Protostoria e storia del «Venetorum angulus», Atti del XX Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, Pisa-Rome: Istituti Editoriali.
- Wallace, R. E. (2004) Venetic. In Woodard (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: CUP, 840–856.
- Glottolog: Venetic
Words compared
Compared with languages in the same classification: Indo-European (Italic, or an independent IE branch — debated)
| Meaning | Venetic | Nicaraguan Sign Language | Tartessian | Liburnian | Proto-Japonic-Koreanic | Goguryeo | Messapic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water | ouriom /ˈouriom/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | 買 /*mai/ | — /—/ |
| Fire | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Sun | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Moon | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Star | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Night | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Mother | matur /ˈmatur/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | *əma /əma/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Father | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | *əpa /əpa/ | — /—/ | ana /ˈana/ |
| I | eχo /ˈexo/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| You | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| We | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Name | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Eye | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Tooth | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Tongue | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Hand | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Heart | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Bone | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Blood | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Love | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Tree | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Dog | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Cat | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Fish | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Horse | ekvon /ˈekwon/ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| House | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Eat | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Drink | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| One | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Two | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Three | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | 密 /*mit/ | — /—/ |
| Hello | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Thank you | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Good | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
| Red | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ | — /—/ |
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