see also: Venetic:Phonology | Venetic:Morphology and Syntax Venetic was an Indo-European language spoken in North Eastern Italy from 1000 to the first century B.C. It is possibly an Italic languages, related to Latin, Oscan, and Umbrian, but this classification is not certain. Like the Sabellian languages, Venetic was displaced by Latin on account of Roman expansion. The body of Venetic writings, a total of 350 specimens, is equally divided between funerary and votive inscriptions. The latter are written on bronze tablets or writing implements for dedication at religious sanctuaries; sites such as the Sanctuaries at Baratella and Lagole di Calalzo have yielded much of the corpus. Funerary inscriptions as well come from these sites; many are inscriptions left on terracotta funeral urns, but