Around 2000, I looked into the Adriatic Inscriptions being possibly Finnic, and originating from traders in control of amber trade between the Jutland Peninsula and the Adriatic, and the southeast Baltic and the Adriatic. Since professional trader peoples - history shows (example Phoenicians) - tended to establish their own colonies and markets whereever in their trade systems it was needed, it was likely that the Venetic colonies established at the south ends of the two amber routes were established in the same language as the peoples at the source of amber. Although the language of those northern peoples has been debated for decades, evidence not accessible to scholars unless they know Finnic language, suggests that the language at the source of the amber was Finnic. At the southeast Baltic, Tacitus identified them as the Aestii. That name is identical to what Estonians have always called themselves - Eesti.  If that is the case,  there was reason to investigate the Venetic inscriptions dating from 1000 BC to the Roman Age, from the point of view of their being Finnic. Since Finnic languages closer to the amber sources have disappeared, we focussed on Estonian, while making additonal references to related Livonian and Finnish.
The process used was basically the same as a baby uses to discover its mother's language - to study the objects the inscriptions are on to get a sense of what they might say, and then advance and test possibilities, drawing possibilities form Estonian.  The process used is better than standard linguistic methodology because it followed tried and true scientific methods which permit the employment of probability and statistics, whereas linguistic method are somewhat outmoded in that they operate on data as if the data is certain, and produce outcomes that are assumed certain. Such methodology only works on clear solid data - treating language like mathematics and a machine. It fails when data is sparse, and it is necessary to be statistical. This shortcoming of lingistics is the reason the determinations of Uralic and Indo-European language families is being considered flawed by some. To avoid the shortcomings and even errors of linguistic methods I employed the same methods as archeology does, except that I added references to language, treating language simply as additional data to the body of archeological data. This approach allows conclusions to be derived in a fuzzy way from an accumulation of data in much the same way as a lawyer presents evidence to a jury in court - where conclusions are made from the sum of the data, with allowance for uncertainties, instead of from assuming, as linguistic does, of false certainty in any of the data or conclusions.
One of the strong supports to the theory that the Veneti were Finnic (Finno-Ugric) from the Baltic, is that we can witness exactly the same transfer of a northern Finno-Ugric language to southern Europe in the Hungarian language. The Hungarians can be traced to northern Russian Finno-Ugric fur traders. As we say, traders established colonies and sometimes the colonies were very successful and took on a life of their own.
If you have investigated other websites under Veneti, you will have discovered that Slovenians and Slavs have taken a great interest in the Veneti since their location is close to their ancient location, but legitimate academia has not given any credence to their view that Veneti were ancient Slovenians. The Veneto of northern Italy are also interested in the subject, and have generally accepted the traditional theory which originated with the idea the Veneti were an archaic Latin people, but lately Veneto have taken an interest in our Finnic theory, of Veneti having been, like Hungary today, a transposed culture established by northern traders, and then the southern colonies became so successful they took on a life of their own.
My work proceeded for several years and I interpreted all the complete inscriptions - I did not pick and choose - and I documented it in book form. This book is print-on-demand. If you would like to obtain a copy see below.  The book is presented on this website in the form of scanned pages. Note that in this form excessive reading may cause eyestrain, and therefore if you wish to study it  more seriously it is wise to obtain a hard copy, or another version like a pdf file. about obtaining a copy. me about obtaining a copy. Price is comparable to prices today for scholarly print-on-demand books and shipping. 

CONTENTS:
The book is about 540 pages and filled with black and white maps and illustrations of the inscriptions. It is written in plain language but requires university level intelligence. Understanding statistics and probability in scientific investigation is useful. Knowledge of Finnic languages helps you get more involved in the analysis. Most of the early chapters are a general discussion of our perception of the Veneti as long distance trader peoples and Finnic identity - in contrast to traditional and current views that they were Indo-European (a different language family from Finno-Ugric).  This presents a brand new approach to the Veneti,  and in our view the correct one, since the interpretation of the inscriptions has been much more successful in getting results than previous approaches from the Indo-European approach. The book is a very good resource for anyone interested in something breaking new ground in the realms of archeology and ancient language.



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