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).
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