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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... regions of Italy whose names will occur many times in the following pages . " Beginning in the northwest ... region . All rivers stream fanlike toward the Po , and many of them are harnessed to run the generating turbines of ...
... regions of Italy whose names will occur many times in the following pages . " Beginning in the northwest ... region . All rivers stream fanlike toward the Po , and many of them are harnessed to run the generating turbines of ...
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... region of the lowest passes , the backdoor to Italy . It is also the land of the arid , calcareous , sterile Carso . Since the main occupation of the inhabitants is nonetheless farming , pov- erty is inevitable . Returning westward , we ...
... region of the lowest passes , the backdoor to Italy . It is also the land of the arid , calcareous , sterile Carso . Since the main occupation of the inhabitants is nonetheless farming , pov- erty is inevitable . Returning westward , we ...
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... region in spots . About the central part of southern Italy , the Abruzzi and Lucania , little is known , and this region will attract our interest mainly in the discussion of the various Oscan - speaking tribes . The prehistoric ...
... region in spots . About the central part of southern Italy , the Abruzzi and Lucania , little is known , and this region will attract our interest mainly in the discussion of the various Oscan - speaking tribes . The prehistoric ...
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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