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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... speak ' Italian , ' or speak it haltingly and with a strong regional accent . Italian immigrants to the United States also brought with them and continued to use among themselves their local dialects rather than the national language ...
... speak ' Italian , ' or speak it haltingly and with a strong regional accent . Italian immigrants to the United States also brought with them and continued to use among themselves their local dialects rather than the national language ...
Pagina 162
... speaking non - Greek unintelligible idiom at Cortona in Tuscany , near Arezzo ( these ' Pelasgians ' probably ... speak such a dialect , or simply , by a further onomastic legerdemain , be Indo - Europeans . From that to their ...
... speaking non - Greek unintelligible idiom at Cortona in Tuscany , near Arezzo ( these ' Pelasgians ' probably ... speak such a dialect , or simply , by a further onomastic legerdemain , be Indo - Europeans . From that to their ...
Pagina 226
... speak of a non - Indo- European substratum and not of an Indo - European superstratum.18 In this process there occurred no doubt at different dates infiltra- tions of Indo - European - speaking persons whose languages the natives ...
... speak of a non - Indo- European substratum and not of an Indo - European superstratum.18 In this process there occurred no doubt at different dates infiltra- tions of Indo - European - speaking persons whose languages the natives ...
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