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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Age , it appeared that the new cultures reached Italy on two fronts . It seems to me that the pe- culiar testimony of the Iron Age cultures can be interpreted in the same way . The one feature that both the northern and the southern ...
... Age , it appeared that the new cultures reached Italy on two fronts . It seems to me that the pe- culiar testimony of the Iron Age cultures can be interpreted in the same way . The one feature that both the northern and the southern ...
Pagina 124
... Iron Age cultures in Italy , without any ethnic or political connotation.49 The other Iron Age cultures of Italy , not subsumed under the heading Villanovan , that is , all those practicing inhumation burials in the center and south ...
... Iron Age cultures in Italy , without any ethnic or political connotation.49 The other Iron Age cultures of Italy , not subsumed under the heading Villanovan , that is , all those practicing inhumation burials in the center and south ...
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... Iron Age cultures which we may trace back for some time , but we must not correlate the beginning of these Iron Age cultures with the arrival of certain dialects in central Italy , especially since in fact our documentation of these ...
... Iron Age cultures which we may trace back for some time , but we must not correlate the beginning of these Iron Age cultures with the arrival of certain dialects in central Italy , especially since in fact our documentation of these ...
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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 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 words written