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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... records beyond accidental allusions , and because of the com- plete lack of any climate statistics for the remote and even more recent past , inferences are made by Huntington on the basis of archaeological evidence , historical records ...
... records beyond accidental allusions , and because of the com- plete lack of any climate statistics for the remote and even more recent past , inferences are made by Huntington on the basis of archaeological evidence , historical records ...
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... 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 southward along the center of the peninsula , either ...
... 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 southward along the center of the peninsula , either ...
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... records of the literary language little need be said . They are the works of Latin literature of all ages , in particular , as far as Classical Latin is concerned , those of the Golden Latinity of the end of the Republic and of the ...
... records of the literary language little need be said . They are the works of Latin literature of all ages , in particular , as far as Classical Latin is concerned , those of the Golden Latinity of the end of the Republic and of the ...
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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