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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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Pagina 168
... Illyrians ) Venetic to be Illyrian : Venetic , attested mainly in the very center of the Euganean land , would have been in some degree Illyrianized by Illyrian - speaking invaders but remained fundamentally Italic . The Illyrians have ...
... Illyrians ) Venetic to be Illyrian : Venetic , attested mainly in the very center of the Euganean land , would have been in some degree Illyrianized by Illyrian - speaking invaders but remained fundamentally Italic . The Illyrians have ...
Pagina 212
... Illyrian type , then the argument is legitimate enough , provided that Illyrian affinities can actually be found in Venetic . Until quite recently Venetic was in fact thought to be an Illyrian kind of dialect , like Messapic of Apulia ...
... Illyrian type , then the argument is legitimate enough , provided that Illyrian affinities can actually be found in Venetic . Until quite recently Venetic was in fact thought to be an Illyrian kind of dialect , like Messapic of Apulia ...
Pagina 215
... Illyrian Messapians ' between the tenth and fifth centuries ? And even afterward the only unity we have evidence for is the linguistic one attested to by the inscriptions ; and that still does not guarantee that all the inhabitants of ...
... Illyrian Messapians ' between the tenth and fifth centuries ? And even afterward the only unity we have evidence for is the linguistic one attested to by the inscriptions ; and that still does not guarantee that all the inhabitants of ...
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