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NOTABLE PEOPLE
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For people from Venice, see People from Venice. Others closely associated with the city include:Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107, 1205), Doge of Venice from 1192 to his death. He played a direct role in the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. Ma... |
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TWIN TOWNS - SISTER CITIES
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Twin towns - Sister citiesPalembang, Indonesia. Suzhou, China, since 1980 Tallinn, Estonia Pereira, Colombia Istanbul, Turkey, since 1993 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 1994 Nuremberg, Germany, since 1999 Qingdao, China, since 2001 Saint Pet... |
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COOPERATION AGREEMENTS
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Venice has cooperation agreements with the Greek city of Thessaloniki, the German city of Nuremberg, signed on 25 September 1999, and the Turkish city of Istanbul, signed on 4 March 1993, within the framework of the 1991 Istanbul Declaration. It is a... |
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VENETIAN LANGUAGE
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Venetian or Venetan is a Romance language spoken as native language by over two million people, mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, where of five million inhabitants almost all can understand it. It is sometime spoken and often well understood outs... |
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HISTORY
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Venetian descends from Vulgar Latin, influenced by the Celts and possibly the Venetic substratum and by the languages of the Germanic tribes (Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards) who invaded northern Italy in the 5th century. Venetian, as a known writ... |
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GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
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Venetian is spoken mainly in the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia and in both Slovenia and Croatia (Istria, Dalmatia and the Kvarner Gulf). Smaller communities are found in the provinces of Lombardy, Trento, Emilia (in Mantova, Rim... |
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CLASSIFICATION
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Venetian descends partly from Vulgar Latin - like all other Romance languages, including Italian and the other Italian dialects. However, in the traditional classification of Romance languages it is considered part of the Italo-Romance group.Accordin... |
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REGIONAL VARIANTS
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The main regional variants and sub-variants of Venetian areCentral (Padua, Vicenza, Polesine), with about 1,500,000 speakers. Eastern/Coastal (Venice, Trieste, Grado, Istria, Fiume). Western (Verona, Trento). North-Central (Treviso, most of Pordenone... |
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GRAMMAR
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Like most Romance languages, Venetian has mostly abandoned the Latin case system, in favor of prepositions and a more rigid subject-verb-object sentence structure. It has thus become more analytic, if not quite as much as English. Venetian also has t... |
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REDUNDANT SUBJECT PRONOUNS
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A peculiarity of Venetian grammar is a "semi-analytical" verbal flexion, with a compulsory "clitic subject pronoun" before the verb in many sentences, "echoing" the subject as an ending or a weak pronoun. Independent/emphatic pronouns (e.g. ti), on t... |
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