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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 .
- ca. 1000 BC
- Italic languages
Italic; Proto-language: Proto-Italic: Subdivisions: Latino-Faliscan (including Romance) †Osco-Umbrian (Sabellic) †Venetic? †Siculian? †Lusitanian? †Vestinian? ISO 639-5: itc: Glottolog: ital1284
- Originally the Italic peoples
- Proto-Italic
- Indo-EuropeanItalic
Italic languages, certain Indo-European languages that were once spoken in the Apennine Peninsula (modern Italy) and in the eastern part of the Po valley. These include the Latin, Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian, South Picene, and Venetic languages, which have in common a considerable number of features
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.
May 19, 2023 · Linguists postulated that there existed a Proto-Italic Language, spoken in the 1000s BCE, from which the Italic languages originated. The Proto-Italic speakers arrived in Italy in the prehistoric ...
Italic languages - Romance, Latin, Indo-European: 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 ...
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.
