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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Latium . ( It should be noted that the modern Latium , or Lazio , occupies really double the area of what the Romans called Latium , which corresponds mainly to the modern Roman Campagna south of Rome . ) Latium is less hilly than its ...
... Latium . ( It should be noted that the modern Latium , or Lazio , occupies really double the area of what the Romans called Latium , which corresponds mainly to the modern Roman Campagna south of Rome . ) Latium is less hilly than its ...
Pagina 159
... Latium which we later discern in Old Latin and , in part , in Faliscan . Obviously this is , or should be , a purely linguistic denomination , signifying no more than speakers of Proto - Latin . Now if the linguist interested in some ...
... Latium which we later discern in Old Latin and , in part , in Faliscan . Obviously this is , or should be , a purely linguistic denomination , signifying no more than speakers of Proto - Latin . Now if the linguist interested in some ...
Pagina 244
... Latium.12 Latinian is an idiom which grew peculiarly and uniquely in Latium , out of the Indo - European seeds carried south by relatively few invaders of Iron Age civiliza- tion but of unknown race , and implanted upon a native ...
... Latium.12 Latinian is an idiom which grew peculiarly and uniquely in Latium , out of the Indo - European seeds carried south by relatively few invaders of Iron Age civiliza- tion but of unknown race , and implanted upon a native ...
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