Venetian Language - Regional Variants

Regional Variants

The main regional varieties and subvarieties of Venetian are

• Central (Padua, Vicenza, Polesine), with about 1,500,000 speakers.
• Eastern/Coastal (Venice, Trieste, Grado, Istria, Fiume).
• Western (Verona, Trentino).
• North-Central (Treviso, most of Pordenonese).
• Northern (Belluno, comprising Feltre, Agordo, Cadore, Zoldo Alto).

All these variants are mutually intelligible, with a minimum 92% between the most diverging ones (Central and Western). Modern speakers reportedly can still understand to some extent Venetian texts from the 14th century.

Other noteworthy variants are spoken in

• Chioggia,
• Pontine Marshes,
• Dalmatia, Croatia,
• Rio Grande do Sul (Antônio Prado), Santa Catarina, Paraná e São Paulo, Brazil ("Talian dialect"),
• Chipilo, Mexico,
• Peripheral creole languages along the southern border (nearly extinct).