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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... race that can derive its physical inheritance from a prehistoric or early historic pure race . However , it can of course happen , though instances are rare enough , that some group of racially mixed per- sons finds itself , because of ...
... race that can derive its physical inheritance from a prehistoric or early historic pure race . However , it can of course happen , though instances are rare enough , that some group of racially mixed per- sons finds itself , because of ...
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... race which is still distinguished in many parts of Europe . " 20 The only racial feature which Cro Magnon men and modern Europeans can provedly be said to have in common is their humanness . But to clinch the argument there is elsewhere ...
... race which is still distinguished in many parts of Europe . " 20 The only racial feature which Cro Magnon men and modern Europeans can provedly be said to have in common is their humanness . But to clinch the argument there is elsewhere ...
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... race , are native to central and western Europe . . . . Nor- dic race and ethnic and linguistic Indo - Europeanness are funda- mentally identical . " 8 " The Indo - European family of nations owes its origin to the enterprising ...
... race , are native to central and western Europe . . . . Nor- dic race and ethnic and linguistic Indo - Europeanness are funda- mentally identical . " 8 " The Indo - European family of nations owes its origin to the enterprising ...
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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