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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... classical languages of successive eras . The steps on the sketch indi- cate these succeeding classical languages , whereas the straight slop- ing line represents the continuous change of the spoken idiom throughout the history of ...
... classical languages of successive eras . The steps on the sketch indi- cate these succeeding classical languages , whereas the straight slop- ing line represents the continuous change of the spoken idiom throughout the history of ...
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... Classical Latin was urged upon Christians " so that those who strive to please God by a decorous life , would not neglect to please Him also by decorous speech . . . We exhort you to study letters . . . precisely with the aim that you ...
... Classical Latin was urged upon Christians " so that those who strive to please God by a decorous life , would not neglect to please Him also by decorous speech . . . We exhort you to study letters . . . precisely with the aim that you ...
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... classical standards seemed thereby assured literally with God's help , at least among the clergy and the learned . Latin , of one kind or another , was still thought the real and living language of Italy and the church . But with a ...
... classical standards seemed thereby assured literally with God's help , at least among the clergy and the learned . Latin , of one kind or another , was still thought the real and living language of Italy and the church . But with a ...
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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 Normans northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver 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