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- Italic languages, Indo-European languages spoken in the Apennine Peninsula (Italy) during the 1st millennium bc, after which only Latin survived. Traditionally thought to be a subfamily of related languages, these languages include Latin, Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian, South Picene, and Venetic.
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Italy attained a unified ethnolinguistic, political, and cultural physiognomy only after the Roman conquest, yet its most ancient peoples remain anchored in the names of the regions of Roman Italy— Latium, Campania, Apulia, Bruttium, Lucania, Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, Etruria, Venetia, and Liguria.
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Italic languages, Indo-European languages spoken in the Apennine Peninsula (Italy) during the 1st millennium bc, after which only Latin survived. Traditionally thought to be a subfamily of related languages, these languages include Latin, Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian, South Picene, and Venetic.
Jun 26, 2012 · The Italic languages are a group of cognate languages spoken throughout middle and southern Italy before the predominance of Rome. With the exception of Latin, they are known mainly from epigraphic sources ranging from the late 7th to the early 1st century BCE.
Jun 10, 2021 · In the early first millennium BCE, Latin was one of many languages spoken on the Italian Peninsula, which hosted several other ancient Italic dialects as well as Ancient Greek (spoken in Greek colonies along the southern coast) and an influential non-Indo-European language known as Etruscan.
- Jeffrey Bourns
- 2012
Mar 12, 2020 · The Italic languages are a group of cognate languages spoken throughout the middle and southern parts of Italy before the predominance of Rome. Most of you (dare I say all of you?) will probably recognise at least one of the Italic languages: Latin.
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.
The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once spoken in Italy. The most important of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one to survive antiquity (see Latin language ).
