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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]
- Latino-Faliscan
The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of...
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Italo-Celtic. Indo-Hittite. Indo-Uralic. v. t. e. In...
- Latino-Faliscan
The Celtic languages ( / ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tik) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. [1] The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, [2] following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described ...
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Vocabulary. Lexical comparison leads to more specific data about the history of the Italic languages. There are linguistic boundaries called isoglosses that may date back to pre-Italic history: e.g., Oscan humuns, Latin homines, and Gothic gumans ‘human beings’ derive from an Indo-European root that meant ‘earth’; and Oscan anamúm ‘mind’ (accusative singular) is directly related ...
7.1 Introduction. Many scholars have noted similarities between Italic ( Chapter 8) and Celtic ( Chapter 9 ). Schleicher (1858) was the first to posit an Italo-Celtic node between Proto-Indo-European and Celtic and Italic. 1 But in the 1920s Carl Marstrander and Giacomo Devoto questioned the validity of this subgrouping. 2 Scholarly opinion has ...
8.1 Introduction. The Italian peninsula before the Roman conquest was home to a large number of languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. 1 Among these languages, the following have been thought to descend from a common ancestor, Proto-Italic (cf. Figure 8.1 ). 1.
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. Latin, the language of Latium and Rome, began to emerge ...
