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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... remained small , and literary works could not find a great national audience which would eventually imitate their language . Since political questions of course did not concern a national au- dience either , debates on a nation - wide ...
... remained small , and literary works could not find a great national audience which would eventually imitate their language . Since political questions of course did not concern a national au- dience either , debates on a nation - wide ...
Pagina 340
... remained for the Romans an essentially foreign land for a very long time may be seen from an act of official discrimination , whereby as late as 89 B.C. this part of Italy , unlike the rest of the country , was not granted the franchise ...
... remained for the Romans an essentially foreign land for a very long time may be seen from an act of official discrimination , whereby as late as 89 B.C. this part of Italy , unlike the rest of the country , was not granted the franchise ...
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... remained firmly in Moslem hands . It was only the Normans , under the brothers Robert Guiscard and Roger I , who finally brought peace to southern Italy , allowing the Moslems religious freedom there , an act of tolerance quite without ...
... remained firmly in Moslem hands . It was only the Normans , under the brothers Robert Guiscard and Roger I , who finally brought peace to southern Italy , allowing the Moslems religious freedom there , an act of tolerance quite without ...
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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