Editing Venetic language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Indo-European language of northeast Italy}}
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{{Infobox language
 |name=Venetic
 |states=[[Italy]]
 |region=[[Veneto]]
 |ethnicity=[[Adriatic Veneti]]
 |era=attested 6th–1st century BCE
 |ref=<ref name="walla"/>
 |familycolor=Indo-European
 |fam2=[[Italic languages|Italic]] (?) or<br/>para-[[Celtic languages|Celtic]] (?)<ref name=Jadranka/>
 |script=[[Old Italic scripts|Old Italic]] ([[Venetic alphabet]])
 |iso3=xve
 |linglist=xve
 |glotto=vene1257
 |glottorefname=Venetic
}}

[[File:Iron Age Italy.svg|thumb|240px|right|Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the [[Iron Age]], before the [[Roman conquest of Italy|Roman expansion and conquest of Italy]]. Venetic is in brown.]]

'''Venetic''' ({{IPAc-en|v|ɪ|ˈ|n|ɛ|t|ɪ|k}} {{respell|vin|ET|ik}}) is an extinct [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language]], most commonly classified into the [[Italic languages|Italic subgroup]], that was spoken by the [[Adriatic Veneti|Veneti]] people in ancient times in northeast [[Italy]] ([[Veneto]] and [[Friuli]])  and part of modern [[Slovenia]], between the [[Po (river)#Po Delta|Po Delta]] and the southern fringe of the [[Alps]], associated with the [[Este culture]].<ref name="pell67"/><ref name="walla">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wallace |first=Rex |year=2004 |title=Venetic |editor-last=Woodard |editor-first=Roger D. |encyclopedia=The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages |pages=840–856 |publisher=[[University of Cambridge]] |isbn=0-521-56256-2 |url=http://www.umass.edu/classics/wallace.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=J.J. |last=Wilkes |date=9 January 1996 |title=The Illyrians |edition=1st |page=77 |publisher= Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=0-631-19807-5 |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iOWS4i5X9fgC&q=Venetic++Slovenia&pg=PA77}}</ref>

The language is attested by over 300&nbsp;short inscriptions dating from the 6th to the 1st&nbsp;century&nbsp;BCE. Its speakers are identified with the ancient people called ''[[Adriatic Veneti|Veneti]]'' by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] and ''Enetoi'' by the [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]]. It became extinct around the 1st&nbsp;century when the local inhabitants assimilated into the Roman sphere. Inscriptions dedicating offerings to [[Reitia]] are one of the chief sources of knowledge of the Venetic language.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Ancient Languages of Europe |year=2008 |publisher=Cambridge e‑Books |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511486814 |isbn=9780511486814 |url=http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511486814&cid=CBO9780511486814A018|editor1-last=Woodard |editor1-first=Roger D }} {{full citation needed|date=January 2021}}</ref>