Venetica language

Attention - This article has been inserted in the category ""from the customer , because infondate formulations relatively to the relationships between the italici alphabets. If you can you contribute now to verify of the content and to improve it second . For eventual annotations you see argument page.

Venetico, not to get confused with the dialetto Veneto, it was the language speech from i Paleoveneti, population Indo-European that it left registrations in such language from to the thresholds of the roman age in .

The registrations

The Venetico is famous from an elevated number of registrations that come in first place give , that the main center is condiderato, and then they give , , from they goes of and from other centers between which and from . The registrations are found on several votivi objects.

The alphabet

The alphabet used from the Paleoveneti, of origin Etruscan, it was received in the period -, with the unavoidable difficulties inborn in mutuare an alphabet used for an other linguistico system. As an example, the Etruscan language did not possess the sonorous occlusive (/b /, /d/ and /g/), and therefore the original Greek signs to they correspondents were by now in disuse in the Etruscan alphabet that the Paleoveneti learned. For those sounds they were then uses respective the signs you etruschi , z and , as it is looked at in the example of text brought back here under.

used from i it began instead placing side by side itself to that Veneto around . Many are the letters of the Latin alphabet that are identical to those venetiche, as soon as rounded off or simply turned upside down. The venetico in fact was written in way bustrofedico, that is with lines written alternatively in opposite directions: from left to right in one line, from right on the left in the successive one.

The Language

Example

me?o zone.s.to and.. vha?a.i.t?a p|ora.i. .or.p io|ro?o.s.

me donavit former ballot () Fabatia Porae ob horna (from Pisani, p. 255)

Bibliography

Giacomo Devout person, The language of Italy, Rizzoli, Milan, , pp. 56-58
RS Conway, The Italic Dialects (2 vol., University Press, , repr. 1967)
Vittore Pisani: The languages of ancient Italy beyond the Latin, Turin, (1964)

External connections

HTTP://users.tpg.com.au/etr/etrusk/po/venetic.HTML Venetic from the situated one Voices of Stone.
HTTP://members.tripod.com/adolfozavaroni/venet.htm Venetic inscriptions index of Adolph Zavaroni.
HTTP://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/balk/venetic.HTML Indo-European database: The Venetica language edited by Cyril Babaev.
HTTP://www.evolpub.com/LCA/VTLhome.HTML Víteliú: The Languages of ancient Italy.