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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 123
... cremation burial and Indo - European speech , whereas for the Southern Villanovan culture no such mi- grating bearers can be discerned , leaving diffusion for its mode of expansion . Unlike the two traits peculiar to the northern ...
... cremation burial and Indo - European speech , whereas for the Southern Villanovan culture no such mi- grating bearers can be discerned , leaving diffusion for its mode of expansion . Unlike the two traits peculiar to the northern ...
Pagina 221
... cremation is a sign of Indo - Europeanness . All we can legitimately conclude from this coincidence is that some of the speakers of Indo - European , who came to Italy , belonged to a culture or cul- tures which practiced cremation ...
... cremation is a sign of Indo - Europeanness . All we can legitimately conclude from this coincidence is that some of the speakers of Indo - European , who came to Italy , belonged to a culture or cul- tures which practiced cremation ...
Pagina 242
... cremation are prohibited within the city.10 The Romans of the Republic also practiced both cults . But , although with the cremation and inhumation tombs of Latium and the Sabine Hills we have come very close to the thres- hold of ...
... cremation are prohibited within the city.10 The Romans of the Republic also practiced both cults . But , although with the cremation and inhumation tombs of Latium and the Sabine Hills we have come very close to the thres- hold of ...
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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