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Latino-Faliscan languages. Latino-Faliscan languages and dialects in different shades of blue. The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family. They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE .
The Latino-Faliscan languages are a large branch of Italic languages. They were first spoken in what is now Italy. It is the only branch with languages still spoken. The only branch of Latino-Faliscan languages with languages still spoken is the Romance languages, which came from Latin.
- Proto-Latino-Faliscan (Praeneste fibula)
Falisci is the ancient Roman exonym for an Italic tribe who lived in what is now northern Lazio, on the Etruscan side of the Tiber River. [1] . They spoke an Italic language, Faliscan, closely akin to Latin. Originally a sovereign state, politically and socially they supported the Etruscans, joining the Etruscan League.
Latino-Faliscan languages and dialects in different shades of blue. The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family . They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE .
The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family. They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE. Latin and Faliscan belong to the group, as well as two others often considered dialects of archaic Latin: Lanuvian and Praenestine.
Faliscan is an extinct Italic language related to Latin that was spoken in the Lazio region of Italy until about 150 BC. Over 300 inscriptions have been found in Faliscan dating from between 7th and 2nd centuries BC. Some are in the Faliscan alphabet, which was derived from Etruscan, and other are in the Latin alphabet. Notable features.