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2 days ago · Along with Latin and a few extinct languages of ancient Italy, the Romance languages make up the Italic branch of the Indo-European family. Identifying subdivisions of the Romance languages is inherently problematic, because most of the linguistic area is a dialect continuum, and in some cases political biases can come into play. A tree model ...
2 days ago · The Romans and the inhabitants of Italy in classical times spoke hundreds of dialects of Vulgar Latin, just as Italians spoke hundreds of so-called “Italian dialects” when Italy became a nation. The exceptions were people belonging to the cultured elite who spoke both the dialect and the more cultured and official language.
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2 days ago · Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their signs.
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- (Proto-writing)Cuneiform
- Cuneiform
2 days ago · v. t. e. Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪ (t)ʃɪˈljaːnu]; Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [3] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).
4 days ago · Meanwhile, the Ostrogoths established a powerful kingdom in Italy under the leadership of Theodoric the Great. 5. The Vandals The Vandals were another prominent Germanic tribe whose movements were recorded in detail by historians like Procopius. Originating from the regions around the Oder River, the Vandals migrated through Gaul and Spain ...
4 days ago · Rome is settled • The Latins were an Indo-European people who settled in modern Italy around 1500 BC. • They spoke Latin, which would later give birth to the Romantic languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese are the major ones).
5 days ago · Dead Languages and Runic Symbols Source: Wikimedia Commons. We’d like to honorably mention the Runic Alphabet and Runic Symbols that have also died. They were a common writing system for many dead languages, most notably of Germanic origin. Just like the cuneiform and the hieroglyphs, they once went hand-in-hand with their respective languages.
