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Besides Latin, the known ancient Italic languages are Faliscan (the closest to Latin), Umbrian and Oscan (or Osco-Umbrian), and South Picene. Other Indo-European languages once spoken in the peninsula whose inclusion in the Italic branch is disputed are Venetic and Siculian.
The Italic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family. They were first spoken in Italy. The main language was Latin, which eventually turned into the Romance languages spoken today. The Roman Empire spread Latin to much of Western Europe.
Las lenguas itálicas constituyen un grupo de lenguas indoeuropeas con una serie de rasgos comunes. Incluye al latín junto con sus descendientes, las lenguas romances , y a un cierto número de lenguas extintas, habladas durante la Antigüedad en la península itálica como el osco , el umbro o el falisco , entre otras.
The official and most widely spoken language across the country is Italian, which started off based on the medieval Tuscan of Florence. In parallel, many Italians also communicate in one of the local languages, most of which, like Tuscan, are indigenous evolutions of Vulgar Latin.
Las lenguas de Italia constituyen uno de los patrimonios lingüísticos más ricos y variados de Europa. [2] Con la excepción de algunas lenguas extranjeras vinculadas a los flujos migratorios modernos, las lenguas habladas en Italia son exclusivamente de tronco indoeuropeo y pertenecen en gran medida a la familia de las lenguas romances.
Like in English, common nouns are capitalized when occurring at the beginning of a sentence. Unlike English, nouns referring to languages (e.g. Italian), speakers of languages, or inhabitants of an area (e.g. Italians) are not capitalized. There are three types of adjectives: descriptive, invariable and form-changing. Descriptive adjectives are ...
The Italian language is a Romance language spoken in Italy. Other countries that use Italian as their official language are San Marino, Vatican City and Switzerland. Slovenia, and Croatia also use Italian as an official language, but only in some regions.
