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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... held the country from 568 to 774 , with their capital at Pavia . The present center is the thriving , bustling city of Milan , the second city of Italy after Rome . The landscape resembles that of Piedmont , and the agricultural and ...
... held the country from 568 to 774 , with their capital at Pavia . The present center is the thriving , bustling city of Milan , the second city of Italy after Rome . The landscape resembles that of Piedmont , and the agricultural and ...
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... held a different opinion be- fore . That the Etruscans were , though not brothers , at least cousins of the ' Indo - Europeans ' ; 16 that they were Nordics ; 17 that they 14 Cf. , for example , Fiesel 1931 , 52-53 ( based on Randall ...
... held a different opinion be- fore . That the Etruscans were , though not brothers , at least cousins of the ' Indo - Europeans ' ; 16 that they were Nordics ; 17 that they 14 Cf. , for example , Fiesel 1931 , 52-53 ( based on Randall ...
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... held from the outset . But later on , the neighboring rich men , by means of fictitious personages , transferred these rentals to themselves , and finally held most of the land openly in their own names . Then the poor , who had been ...
... held from the outset . But later on , the neighboring rich men , by means of fictitious personages , transferred these rentals to themselves , and finally held most of the land openly in their own names . Then the poor , who had been ...
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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