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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... especially since , in her desperate search for soldiers , Rome had admitted and encouraged a kind of fifth column of non - Italian mercenaries and officers in its armies , with disastrous results to the efficiency and the morale of the ...
... especially since , in her desperate search for soldiers , Rome had admitted and encouraged a kind of fifth column of non - Italian mercenaries and officers in its armies , with disastrous results to the efficiency and the morale of the ...
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... especially for the crucial period of the five centuries between 1000 and 500 B.C. may seem disappointingly meager . But this is due to an honest instead of a fanciful appraisal of the records as best I know how to perform it today . At ...
... especially for the crucial period of the five centuries between 1000 and 500 B.C. may seem disappointingly meager . But this is due to an honest instead of a fanciful appraisal of the records as best I know how to perform it today . At ...
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... especially in the Romania outside of Italy . ( And we know that even ancient Latium was not without its local Latin dialects . ) To what extent may our sources claim to represent spoken Latin ? On our conclusions will depend our ...
... especially in the Romania outside of Italy . ( And we know that even ancient Latium was not without its local Latin dialects . ) To what extent may our sources claim to represent spoken Latin ? On our conclusions will depend our ...
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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