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The Manuàl Gramaticale Xenerale de la £éngua Vèneta e £e só Varianti (free english version here) was first issued in the web in 2005 and has reached its fourth edition: it is the first general descriptive venetian grammar focusing on both the whole Vèneto language and its varieties which is also written in Vèneto language and designed for a quick diffusion through the web (678 Kb). Leaving apart the orthography (how could a general grammar of Vèneto be written only in the Venice or Belluno variety?), it is the content of the book which is useful to have both an overview of the entire language spoken in Vèneto and a detailed description of its local variations. Indeed, the general linguistic structures of Vèneto are described here together with the main peculiarities of its varieties.
The last chapter provides a brief description of the venetized dialect of Italian which (differently from the varieties of the Veneto language) is based on the grammar and syntax of Italian and is just pronunced in a venetan fashion.
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