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Ligurian. Samnite. ancient Italic people, any of the peoples diverse in origin, language, traditions, stage of development, and territorial extension who inhabited pre-Roman Italy, a region heavily influenced by neighbouring Greece, with its well-defined national characteristics, expansive vigour, and aesthetic and intellectual maturity.
Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was an Indo-European Paleohispanic language. There has been support for either a connection with the ancient Italic languages [1] [2] or Celtic languages. [3] [4] It is known from only six sizeable inscriptions, dated from c. 1 CE, and numerous names of places ( toponyms) and of gods ...
The Italic languages form a centum subfamily of the Indo-European language family, which include the Germanic, Celtic, and Hellenic languages, and a number of extinct ones. Broadly speaking, in initial syllables the Indo-European simple vowels—*i, *e, (*a), *o, *u; short and long—are usually retained in Latin.
Hittite uses -n. Celtic and Italic using -bhos (dative singular) The Celtic-Italic link is fortified by such constructions as the comparison in -samo (vs -tero, -isto) and medium voice in -r (vs -oi, -moi). The Greek-Armenian-Indo-Iranian link is fortified by the fact that all three have an athematic and a thematic aorist.
Latin ( lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Considered a dead language, Latin was originally spoken in Latium (now known as Lazio ), the lower Tiber area around Rome. [1] Through the expansion of the Roman ...
Languages like Old Latin and Oscan are already quite distinct by earliest attestations around 500 BCE, so the divergence must have begun much earlier than that, even before 1000 BCE. I personally think that the people who brought Proto-Italic into Italy came directly from Hungary.
Aug 10, 2020 · The Celtic languages belong to a greater family of languages known as ‘Indo-European‘, which means it shares some characteristics with other languages belonging to the same group, such as the aforementioned Germanic and Romance languages, but also Greek, Slavic, Baltic, and Hindi, just to name a few. Although there are similarities, Celtic ...
