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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 375
... Langobards . Germans were actually the masters of the penin- sula , especially its northern and central part . Yet at the end of this era and after the political elimination of the Germans , we find Italy in culture and language just as ...
... Langobards . Germans were actually the masters of the penin- sula , especially its northern and central part . Yet at the end of this era and after the political elimination of the Germans , we find Italy in culture and language just as ...
Pagina 377
... Langobards , were over- whelmed by their surroundings , could not find their way in them , and forever felt like intruders whose business was regretfully temporary , and who were not only unable but reverently unwill- ing to destroy ...
... Langobards , were over- whelmed by their surroundings , could not find their way in them , and forever felt like intruders whose business was regretfully temporary , and who were not only unable but reverently unwill- ing to destroy ...
Pagina 385
... Lango- bards under Alboin crossed the Alps in 568 , they may or may not still have spoken their original dialect rather than Latin , they may or may not have become speakers of Langobardic before they , together with the Langobards ...
... Lango- bards under Alboin crossed the Alps in 568 , they may or may not still have spoken their original dialect rather than Latin , they may or may not have become speakers of Langobardic before they , together with the Langobards ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.C. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Visigoths Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 written