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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... century B.C. by those Roman legions which had to cross it on their way north . In the middle of the second century B.C. extensive oak forests were still standing in the Po country , where acorn - fed hogs constituted a rich source of ...
... century B.C. by those Roman legions which had to cross it on their way north . In the middle of the second century B.C. extensive oak forests were still standing in the Po country , where acorn - fed hogs constituted a rich source of ...
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... century speaker of Latin would not understand , or be understood by , a twentieth- century Frenchman , and since a speaker of Proto - Indo - European of the thirtieth century B.C. could not communicate with a Roman of the fourth century ...
... century speaker of Latin would not understand , or be understood by , a twentieth- century Frenchman , and since a speaker of Proto - Indo - European of the thirtieth century B.C. could not communicate with a Roman of the fourth century ...
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... century B.C. , when Rome reached the fringes of Campania in her fight against the mountaineers . A real acquaintance between Greeks and Latins did not come about until the third century , when Rome conquered Tarentum in the war against ...
... century B.C. , when Rome reached the fringes of Campania in her fight against the mountaineers . A real acquaintance between Greeks and Latins did not come about until the third century , when Rome conquered Tarentum in the war against ...
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