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2 days ago · Sorothaptic: proposed, pre-Celtic, Iberian language; Thracian: possibly including Dacian; Venetic: shares several similarities with Latin and the Italic languages, but also has some affinities with other IE languages, especially Germanic and Celtic.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
2 days ago · Mallory notes that the Italic, Celtic and Germanic languages are closely related, which accords with their historic distribution. The Germanic languages are also related to the Baltic and Slavic languages, which in turn share similarities with the Indo-Iranic languages.
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2 days ago · The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language. [1]
- ca. 1000 BC
- Italic languages
2 days ago · Elisabeth Leedham-Green. Oak galls. Materials: Inks, Pens, and Surfaces. The documents/samples of hands displayed here were written between 1500 and 1690, most or all of them with a goose-quill pen and an iron gall or carbon-based ink. Iron gall ink was made up from galls (usually oak-galls), copperas [copper sulphate] or green vitriol [ferrous ...
5 days ago · To get technical, it is a part of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, which also includes languages like Spanish, French, Romanian and Portuguese. Not all Italic languages are alike, however, so let’s take a closer look at what makes Italian stand out among the other Romance languages. Linguistic Elements
4 days ago · Scots language, historic language of the people of Lowland Scotland and one closely related to English. The word Lallans, which was originated by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, is usually used for a literary variety of the language, especially that used by the writers of the mid-20th-century movement known as the Scottish Renaissance. Scots is ...
4 days ago · Welsh language, member of the Brythonic group of the Celtic languages, spoken in Wales. Modern Welsh, like English, makes very little use of inflectional endings; British, the Brythonic language from which Welsh is descended, was, however, an inflecting language like Latin, with word endings.
