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The Italic peoples were an ethnolinguistic group identified by their use of Italic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. The Italic peoples are descended from the Urnfield and Tumulus culture, Indo-European speaking peoples who inhabited Italy from at least the second millennium BC onwards. [1]
Samnite. ancient Italic people, any of the peoples diverse in origin, language, traditions, stage of development, and territorial extension who inhabited pre-Roman Italy, a region heavily influenced by neighbouring Greece, with its well-defined national characteristics, expansive vigour, and aesthetic and intellectual maturity.
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"Languages of Ancient Italy" In The Peoples of Ancient Italy edited by Gary D. Farney and Guy Bradley, 127-148. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017.
All living languages indigenous to Italy are part of the Indo-European language family. They can be divided into Romance languages and non-Romance languages. The classification of the Romance languages of Italy is controversial, and listed here are two of the generally accepted classification systems. Romance languages
- see "historical linguistic minorities"
- see "classification"
Paleo-European languages of Italy. Tyrsenian languages. Etruscan – in northern and central Italy [2] Raetic – in northern Italy and Austria [2] Lemnian – in Aegean area [2] Camunic [2] Paleo-Corsican. Paleo-Sardinian [2] – possibly related to the extinct native Iberian language of the Iberian peninsula. Ligurian [2]
Like many things regarding Italy, the history of Italian language starts with the ancient Roman Empire and the language in Ancient Rome, Latin. Latin was one of the two most influential, most important languages in the world, next to ancient Greek.
Apr 4, 2011 · Abstract. Historical inference is at its most powerful when independent lines of evidence can be integrated into a coherent account. Dating linguistic and cultural lineages can potentially play a vital role in the integration of evidence from linguistics, anthropology, archaeology and genetics. Unfortunately, although the comparative method in ...
