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1. www.britannica.com › summary › Italic-languagesItalic languages summary | Britannica

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   Italic languages, Indo-European languages spoken in the Apennine Peninsula (Italy) during the 1st millennium bc, after which only Latin survived. Traditionally thought to be a subfamily of related languages, these languages include Latin, Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian, South Picene, and Venetic. Latin, the language of Latium and Rome, began to emerge ...

2. www.encyclopedia.com › literature-and-arts › languageItalic Languages | Encyclopedia.com

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   Jun 11, 2018 · italic. i·tal·ic / iˈtalik; īˈtal- / • adj. Printing of the sloping kind of typeface used esp. for emphasis or distinction and in foreign words. ∎ (of handwriting) modeled on 16th-century Italian handwriting, typically cursive and sloping and with elliptical or pointed letters. • n. (also i·tal·ics) an italic typeface or letter ...

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   What languages are italic?

   • The Italic languages are a subfamily of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by Italic peoples. They include Latin and its descendants (the Romance languages) as well as a number of extinct languages of the Italian Peninsula, including Umbrian, Oscan, Faliscan, South Picene, and possibly Venetic and Sicel.

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   Why is Latin the only Italic language?

   • This is primarily because so many texts written in Latin survive – and, of course, that it had such an impact on many languages around it. But Latin isn’t the only Italic language. In fact, the language family is generally divided into two branches: one represented by Latin and the closely related (or potentially dialectal) Faliscan.

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   Where did the Italic people come from?

   • The Italic peoples came from the north to the Italian Peninsula in the 2nd millennium BC. There were two waves - an earlier one (the Latino-Faliscan languages, including Sicel, which has gone far to the south) and later (the Osco-Umbrian languages).

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   Where did the Italic languages come from?

   • The main debate concerning the origin of the Italic languages is the same as one that preoccupied Greek studies for the last half of the 20th century. The Indo-Europeanists for Greek had hypothesized (see Dorian invasion, Proto-Greek) that Greek originated outside Greece and was brought in by invaders.

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4. guides.library.harvard.edu › cResearch Guides: Latin and Italic Historical Linguistics: Home

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   Jun 10, 2021 · Latin belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Italic branch of Indo-European. In the early first millennium BCE, Latin was one of many languages spoken on the Italian Peninsula, which hosted several other ancient Italic dialects as well as Ancient Greek (spoken in Greek colonies along the southern coast) and an influential non-Indo-European language known as Etruscan.

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5. study.com › academy › lessonItalic Languages | Distribution, Classification & History

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   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 ...

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   Mar 12, 2020 · But Latin isn’t the only Italic language. In fact, the language family is generally divided into two branches: one represented by Latin and the closely related (or potentially dialectal) Faliscan. The other is represented by a subgroup of languages usually referred to as the Sabellic or Sabellian languages.

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   Nov 17, 2022 · The Italic languages are a subfamily of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by Italic peoples. They include Latin and its descendants (the Romance languages) as well as a number of extinct languages of the Italian Peninsula, including Umbrian, Oscan, Faliscan, South Picene, and possibly Venetic and Sicel. With over 800 million native speakers, the Italic languages are the ...