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Italic languages - Venetic, Indo-European, Ancient: The language represented by inscriptions from the territory of the Veneti—between the Po River, the Carnic Alps, and Istria—is called Venetic. The majority of discoveries come from sanctuaries at Este and Làgole di Calalzo. The Venetic inscriptions (of which there are about 300, ranging from the 5th to the 1st century bce) consist almost ...
Nov 17, 2022 · However, since it also shares similarities with other Western Indo-European branches (particularly Celtic languages), some linguists prefer to consider it as an independent Indo-European language. In the extreme view, Italic did not exist, but the different groups descended directly from Indo-European and converged because of geographic contiguity.
Aug 16, 2024 · Celtic languages - Ancient Contacts, Relationships: The question of the relationship of Common Celtic to the other Indo-European languages remains open. For some time, it was held that Celtic stood in an especially close relation to the Italic branch; some scholars even spoke of a period when an Italo-Celtic “nation” existed, toward the end of the 2nd millennium bc. The existence of a q ...
Some people speak Celtic languages in the other Celtic diaspora areas of the United States, [243] Canada, Australia, [244] and New Zealand. [245] In all these areas, the Celtic languages are now only spoken by minorities though there are continuing efforts at revitalization. Welsh is the only Celtic language not classified as "endangered" by ...
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
Marstrander thought the proto-form of the superlative suffix was *-sm̥mo-and of “haute antiquité” [“remote antiquity”], hence a shared inheritance.But we know today, thanks to Warren Cowgill, that the proto-form was in fact *-ism̥mo-and it is certain that *-ism̥mo-replaces the earlier superlative formant *-isto-continued by Greek, Indo-Iranian, and Germanic, which was inherited ...
The Horse, The Wheel and Language. According to David W. Anthony, between 3100 and 3000 BC, a massive migration of Proto-Indo-Europeans from the Yamnaya culture took place into the Danube Valley. Thousands of kurgans are attributed to this event. These migrations probably split off Pre-Italic, Pre-Celtic and Pre-Germanic from Proto-Indo ...
