THE TONGUES OF ITALY

according ancient appear authors became become beginning Bronze called century Chapter civilization classes classical colonies common concerning continued course cultural dialects early east emperor Empire especially ethnic Etruscan Europe European evidence example existence fact foreign Germanic Greek Hence human Illyrian important Indo-European influence inhabitants inscriptions invaders Iron Age Italian Italic Italy land language later Latin Latium learned least less Ligurian linguistic literary matter means Mediterranean migration native neolithic northern origin perhaps period persons Plautus political population possibly prehistoric Proto-Indo-European question race racial reason records reference regions remained result Roman Rome scholars seems Senate sense Sicily social southern speak speakers speech spoken spread term theory tion tribes true Umbrian United various Villanovan Whatmough whole writing written