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The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin , the official language of ancient Rome , which conquered the other Italic peoples before the common era . [1]
- Originally the Italic peoples
- Proto-Italic
- Indo-EuropeanItalic
Today some scholars are inclined to distinguish within the so-called Italic branch at least three independent members of the Indo-European family: Latin (with Faliscan), Osco-Umbrian (with South Picene), and Venetic (if indeed this is an Italic language, as will be assumed in this article).
Mar 27, 2024 · Indo-European languages, family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. The 10 main branches of the family are Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Germanic, Armenian, Tocharian, Celtic, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian.
8.2 Evidence for the Italic Branch . Positing Proto-Italic as the superordinate node of Latin, Venetic, and Sabellic is not uncontroversial, though it is supported by substantial phonological and morphological evidence: the merger of *bʰ-and *dʰ-as *f-, Footnote 11 the gerundive in *-nd-, the ipf. subj. *-sē-, the ipf. *-βā-(the more probative morphological features are unattested in the ...
May 5, 2014 · The Indo-European Languages are a family of related languages that today are widely spoken in the Americas, Europe, and also Western and Southern Asia.Just as languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian are all descended from Latin, Indo-European languages are believed to derive from a hypothetical language known as Proto-Indo-European, which is no longer spoken.
- Cristian Violatti
The Indo-Hittite hypothesis proposes that the Indo-European language family consists of two main branches: one represented by the Anatolian languages and another branch encompassing all other Indo-European languages. Features that separate Anatolian from all other branches of Indo-European (such as the gender or the verb system) have been ...
Jun 26, 2012 · A language with disputed membership in the Italic family is Venetic, known from about 350 inscriptions from the 6th to the 1st century BCE from the modern Veneto area, particularly from around the modern town of Este. Venetic shows a number of peculiar features but also has several, mainly morphological, similarities to the Italic languages.
