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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 86
... Umbrian ( s ) , Ligurian ( s ) , Pelasgian ( s ) , Aborigines , and many others are used by a great number of scholars , antique and re- cent , with unrestrained laxity and romantic impetuousness . But on closer scrutiny we find that ...
... Umbrian ( s ) , Ligurian ( s ) , Pelasgian ( s ) , Aborigines , and many others are used by a great number of scholars , antique and re- cent , with unrestrained laxity and romantic impetuousness . But on closer scrutiny we find that ...
Pagina 227
... Umbrian perhaps upon Northern Villanovan , Latin on Latian ( a mere onomastic equation here , unless Latian is of the Southern Villanovan variety ) ; for Messapic we do not know the Iron Age culture upon which it grew , nor for Siculan ...
... Umbrian perhaps upon Northern Villanovan , Latin on Latian ( a mere onomastic equation here , unless Latian is of the Southern Villanovan variety ) ; for Messapic we do not know the Iron Age culture upon which it grew , nor for Siculan ...
Pagina 342
... Umbrian , and , we may presume , to their slight number.24 They did not inhabit the whole province now called Umbria but only the fringe of it , in particular the upper valleys of the rivers emptying into the Tyrrhenian on one side and ...
... Umbrian , and , we may presume , to their slight number.24 They did not inhabit the whole province now called Umbria but only the fringe of it , in particular the upper valleys of the rivers emptying into the Tyrrhenian on one side and ...
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