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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... SPOKEN EGYPTIAN Persian Conquest Christ- ianity Arab Conquest Fig . 1 ( after Sethe 1925 , 316 , slightly revised ) Egyptian history , usually a catastrophe . Now while the spoken language of the masses moves along its undisturbed ...
... SPOKEN EGYPTIAN Persian Conquest Christ- ianity Arab Conquest Fig . 1 ( after Sethe 1925 , 316 , slightly revised ) Egyptian history , usually a catastrophe . Now while the spoken language of the masses moves along its undisturbed ...
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... SPOKEN LATIN WRITTEN LATIN Mediaeval WRITTEN ROMANIC Proto - Romanic Romanic Vernaculars Fig . 2 mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the larger scale permits a detail which could ...
... SPOKEN LATIN WRITTEN LATIN Mediaeval WRITTEN ROMANIC Proto - Romanic Romanic Vernaculars Fig . 2 mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the larger scale permits a detail which could ...
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... spoken Latin converge . At that time , a written classical tradition was just emerging ; that is , Roman literature is being created ( almost exclusively on Greek models ) , and the linguistic evidence we have from the earliest times ...
... spoken Latin converge . At that time , a written classical tradition was just emerging ; that is , Roman literature is being created ( almost exclusively on Greek models ) , and the linguistic evidence we have from the earliest times ...
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