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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 141
... Latin , is known . I daresay the equation that Latin is to Romanic dialects what Proto - Indo - Euro- pean is to the Indo - European dialects , is not controversial . But of course , by citing Latin as the parent language of Romanic we ...
... Latin , is known . I daresay the equation that Latin is to Romanic dialects what Proto - Indo - Euro- pean is to the Indo - European dialects , is not controversial . But of course , by citing Latin as the parent language of Romanic we ...
Pagina 269
... Latin League in 338 and the concomitant rise of Rome's hegemony , the so - called Latin colonies became in reality purely Roman enterprises and sprang up not just for the protection of the Latin tribes but as outer bulwarks , in more ...
... Latin League in 338 and the concomitant rise of Rome's hegemony , the so - called Latin colonies became in reality purely Roman enterprises and sprang up not just for the protection of the Latin tribes but as outer bulwarks , in more ...
Pagina 337
... Latin was a second or foreign language , he cer- tainly was not up to date on the language currently in fashion in the capital . But even if the inscription had been wholly in Roman or wholly in Calabrianized Latin , any inference on ...
... Latin was a second or foreign language , he cer- tainly was not up to date on the language currently in fashion in the capital . But even if the inscription had been wholly in Roman or wholly in Calabrianized Latin , any inference on ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called 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 northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records 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 Volsci Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 written