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a starting point in their creations. By translating from Italian many of the
original Friulian linguistic elements are unfortunately lost. A descendant
of the Aquilea Vulgar Latin, Friulian was indirectly proclaimed a special Ro-
mance language variety by Dante Alighieri in his famous treaty De Vulgari
Eloquentia. It is historically closely related to its sister language Venetan,
in the urban settings in particular they are interwoven to such an extent
that currently speakers in Friuli’s towns and cities use a kind of Friulian-
Venetan-Italian hybrid in everyday conversation.
In contrast with Friulian, Venetan had not been enshrined in the Con-
stitution of the Republic of Italy and was consequently not adopted as a
minority language at the state level, but it only enjoys the status of a re-
gional language on the whole territory of the Region of Veneto and part
of fvg with a purpose to maintain the cultural heritage of the Republic
of Venice, despite its over 1000-year speaking and writing tradition in the
domains of business and diplomacy. During the period of their invasion
of Istria, the Venetians brought this idiom to the urban coastal centres of
Slovenian and Croatian Istria, where it continued its evolution as an iso-
lated Venetan dialect or micro-language now called Istro-Venetan.
The Bisiacaria community speech in the area between the Grado-Marano
Lagoon and Gorizia/Gorica/Gurize/Görz, in which the poet Biagio Marin
created some of his masterpieces, and contemporary Triestino vernacu-
lar, which has to be clearly distinguished from the extinct Friulian variety
known as Tergestino, belong to the Venetan language complex.
The Friulian varieties in the east of Friuli coexist with the western Slove-
nian dialects Resian, Tersko and Nadiško, all three partly standardised,
therefore the Slovenian studies experts have recently defined them as re-
gional literary languages. The same term has been approved by experts to
analyse the Prekmurje dialect or the ancient standard Slovenian language
of Prekmurje in the Slovene-Hungarian border area respectively.

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