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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 54
... appear to the critical eye of the linguist . First of all , as the heart of the artichoke is not a whole arti- choke , so a de - dialectalized language , incorporating only the com- mon denominator of all related dialects of a nation ...
... appear to the critical eye of the linguist . First of all , as the heart of the artichoke is not a whole arti- choke , so a de - dialectalized language , incorporating only the com- mon denominator of all related dialects of a nation ...
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... appear in Southern Etruscan , Campanian Etruscan , and Venetic writing , are meaning- less in an alphabetic script and point to an older state of syllabic writing among the Etruscans , perhaps similar to the one found on Cyprus . But ...
... appear in Southern Etruscan , Campanian Etruscan , and Venetic writing , are meaning- less in an alphabetic script and point to an older state of syllabic writing among the Etruscans , perhaps similar to the one found on Cyprus . But ...
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... appear in such divergent shapes , even in the records of a relatively late period , after the local idioms had already undergone a few centuries of convergent development . On the whole , the Italic dialects ( not tribes ! ) move ...
... appear in such divergent shapes , even in the records of a relatively late period , after the local idioms had already undergone a few centuries of convergent development . On the whole , the Italic dialects ( not tribes ! ) move ...
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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