With the Culture Week, promoted by ESN Italia, we start with our column "Who wants to speak Venetian?".

Venetian is a Romance language spoken as a native language by Venetians, it was the official language of the Venetian Republic together with Latin for a thousand years. The Venetian Language is also known as ‘the language of the sea', partially because of Venice’s location on the water, but also because many of the words, they say, have evolved to be heard clearly from one boat to another.

Nowadays amongst the younger generations Venetian is spoken, but often it is not a whole sentence but only the odd word thrown in. 

Discover with us this funny dialect with typical Venetian word or saying.