The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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Pagina 192
... Etruscan a wholly Indo - European dialect.46 In recognition of the obvious strangeness of Etruscan with reference to Indo - European , but withal unwilling to accept an Anatolian , non - Indo - European theory , some hypotheses relegate ...
... Etruscan a wholly Indo - European dialect.46 In recognition of the obvious strangeness of Etruscan with reference to Indo - European , but withal unwilling to accept an Anatolian , non - Indo - European theory , some hypotheses relegate ...
Pagina 195
... Etruscan changed less than other languages over a comparable period of time , for which belief , however , it will ... Etruscan.62 Regardless of whether it was writ- ten by the actual forebears of the Italian Etruscans , or by the Tyr ...
... Etruscan changed less than other languages over a comparable period of time , for which belief , however , it will ... Etruscan.62 Regardless of whether it was writ- ten by the actual forebears of the Italian Etruscans , or by the Tyr ...
Pagina 196
... Etruscans ' outside of Italy.5 The presence in the Etruscan alpha- bet of the letter 8 for [ f ] which otherwise occurs only in Lydia , has by the way been an argument for the Anatolian extraction of the Etruscan language and even of ...
... Etruscans ' outside of Italy.5 The presence in the Etruscan alpha- bet of the letter 8 for [ f ] which otherwise occurs only in Lydia , has by the way been an argument for the Anatolian extraction of the Etruscan language and even of ...
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